The Mermaid's Prophecy by Clara Alves

Author:Clara Alves [Alves, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-13T22:00:00+00:00

4

It is nearly midnight, and I’ve found out that Gabe is amazing and makes the best gin and tonic ever.

He’s also a great listener.

And I guess I might be a little bit drunk.

“My sisters, they’re all ingrates, you know? I mean, I know my mom can be a tad overprotective when she wants to, but being a loner mermaid is really hard, you know? Our other mother is long dead, and mom has been living on her own for so long she has become a bit controlling, you know? She has a few affairs here and there with other lone mermaids, but after you lose your soulmate. . . that’s it. It’s over. You’re fucked. No one can ever replace her.”

Gabe shakes the little metal cup in his hands while the human man beside us stares at me with raised eyebrows.

I turn to him.

“What are you looking at?”

He frowns and looks back at Gabe, seeming anxious to leave.

Gabe purses his lips, trying to hold back a smile, and finishes making the guy’s drink, offers it to him, who accepts the glass and quickly scurries away. Gabe then turns to me.

“So your mom is a mermaid?” he asks with an amused expression.

I stare at him.

He doesn’t think it’s weird that my mom is a mermaid?

“Yeah,” I confirm it, nodding my head in a fast motion that makes me feel kind of dizzy.

I feel Joana’s presence and turn around before she comes any closer.

Over the last few hours, she’s come to the bar from time to time to check if everything was alright and to talk to us while the bloodsucking asshole was away. I’ve learned that Joana and Gabe have been working together for a long time, doing gigs at rich people parties, and that she works full-time as a barista in a café in Copacabana to pay her way through environmental engineering college.

I have no idea what gigs are, or barista, or college, but when Gabe told me all this, I was still sober enough to know not to ask about it. I’d learned that some things were too common for a human not to know, so it was best to keep quiet and ask Daisy about it later.

Joana leans against the counter, looking tired.

“Did you know Lila’s mom is a mermaid?” Gabe asks her, the corner of his mouth pulling upward.

She looks me up and down.

“Of course, only another mermaid could have given birth to this one.”

She raises her eyebrows and I frown, tilting my head. Does she really know I’m a mermaid?

“Oooh, is that my cue to go check on that customer all the way over there?” Gabe says, leaving us alone.

I’m still staring at Joana.

“Doesn’t it bother you that I’m a mermaid?”

She bows down her head, laughing, before looking back at me. She realizes I’m dead serious. Her smile fades away, and her face takes on a curious expression.

“I think I can handle it.”

I hold her gaze and realize her aura is going back to red, a

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