Sealed With a Hiss by E.A. Price

Author:E.A. Price [Price, E.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B019PDBA2Y
Published: 2015-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

December

Madam listened to the tears from her latest client. She wasn’t sure what to make of her. But she hadn’t had a client in months, and she was starting to get itchy. She wasn’t entirely sure how deserving this female was, but the more she talked, the more Madam realized that the males who had wronged her deserved to pay.

“He told me he loved me!” she wailed. “My husband never treated me right, he was always so possessive and wouldn’t let me go out on my own. And one time he hit me! So when that damned snake turned up and told me that we could be together, I thought he was serious. But now I’ve left my husband, and he doesn’t want me and my husband wants nothing to do with me. What am I supposed to do?” She blinked at Madam, who patted her hand. “Now my husband plans to remarry a cougar shifter twenty years younger than me, and I’m stuck in a dingy motel with three kids and that bastard snake has moved on to his next victim. It’s not fair!”

“No, it’s not fair,” said Madam with force.

She was right. Why should men be allowed to go around hitting their wives, or seducing them into ruining their lives – surely that was equitable to murder? Madam realized she had been thinking too small. She had been concentrating on big crimes, but there were lots of other crimes, considered less important than murder, that deserved attention and definitely deserved punishment. Why, if this poor creature hadn’t found her way to Madam, her husband would surely have remarried and mistreated his new wife, and the snake would have ruined even more lives with his pathetic seductions.

Yes, Madam had to help. Clearly, these men needed punishing. It was Madam’s job to ensure this woman got her vengeance.

*

“I’m not available for any calls,” snapped Gerry as he strode past his secretary.

Norma, the middle-aged warthog shifter gave him a disapproving glare. “Zane Matthews has called twice in the last twenty minutes.”

“Not. Available,” he reiterated while trying not to grind his teeth. His snake hissed. It had been a hell of a day. Thank all that is holy that it was gone five, and he could actually throw in the towel and leave. The last thing he wanted was to listen to the bear shifter begging him down the phone to give him his job back. That could damn well wait.

Norma clucked her tongue. He could be as cold, rude or angry as he wanted and his secretary was never impressed. “Well, then I wouldn’t advise going in there.”

He ignored her and slammed into his office. Both he and his snake growled as twenty people yelled surprise, happy birthday and threw some streamers at him. His immediate reaction was to snarl at everyone. He hated celebrating his birthday. But as his eyes sought Jessie’s and he saw the mischievous glint taunting him, he calmed, and his raging beast virtually turned into a simpering puppy.

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