Sacrifice by L L Frost

Author:L L Frost [Frost, L L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Small Bites
Published: 2020-01-05T07:00:00+00:00

“Master, the cupcakes are cooled,” Jessi reminds me for the second time. “You promised to show me kitty witches.”

I give Torch one last pinch around his little tummy before setting him back into the oven. He flickers blue in goodbye before he belly flops into his bowl of wood pellets.

Closing the hatch, I stand and turn, pulling off my heat resistant gloves in the process. I’m a little sad not to be able to hold Torch without the thick gloves for protection, but it’s a small price to pay for returning to the human plane as just a normal, low-level succubus once more.

Jesse dances from foot-to-foot, her chef’s coat hanging well below her knees and a hairnet over her limp, brown ponytail. Her large, liquid brown eyes shine with excitement. As soon as she sees she has my full attention, she scurries to the decorating counter and climbs up on her footstool.

I follow at a slower pace, my gaze drifting around the kitchen. Iris stands at the large mixer, weighing ingredients before she adds them one at a time, prepping a new batch of the pumpkin spice cakes to replace the ones we almost sold out of after the lunch rush.

Through the passthrough, Martha handles the espresso machine like a pro while Kelly takes orders and rings up customers at the cash register. Tally drifts around the main floor, making sure people have what they need. When her path takes her past the table where Xander and Reese work, she lingers, and I look away from their quiet affection.

I hadn’t told anyone about the second spell the witches laid, and we’ve tactically agreed never to speak of it. I escaped the oreborous, and bringing it up after the fact will only endanger them.

We all came out of the battle with the Dreamer whole and healthy, but it was a near thing. Jax was down for a week with a brutal cough, and Aren lost much of his impressive size, though word on the street is that the baku revere him even more now. Apparently, it’s a big thing to expend that level of power without having to give up a piece of himself. He now leads the BBBB in a kind of dream police, making sure we caught all the drones and that no new monsters enter Dreamland.

After the battle, Julian and Landon went into deep sleep to replenish their reserves for a few days. I’d driven Landon home in the middle of the week and deposited him safely on his couch with a bucket of double-fried chicken, a case of water, and the promise to return with a casserole next Friday.

The hag vanished on her scooter before I even returned, unable to leave the Library without a guardian any longer. But an illustrated book on sex showed up a few days later as her way of wishing me a speedy recovery.

Only Emil, Kellen, and Tobias came away completely unaffected, but their worry over me ratcheted up significantly after they had to dig me out of the new crater created by my return home.

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