Unamused Muse (Mt. Olympus Employment Agency: Muse Book 2) by R.L. Naquin

Author:R.L. Naquin [Naquin, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bottle Cap Publishing
Published: 2015-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I went back to the office an hour before the midnight meeting. Since I’d done it once before, I worked quickly to set the table and change out the light bulbs. I was a good half hour ahead of the creepy, silent caterer guys.

While I waited, I thumbed through the book I’d chosen, hoping it would please Hecate and satisfy the rest of the macabre women in the Hags of the Underworld book club. Clearly, the genre they’d been trying to read wasn’t doing the trick.

The caterers came and went, leaving a questionable spread including what looked to be a dead boa constrictor but may actually have been a spectacular cake. They also set out several bottles of wine.

I wasn’t convinced that was a great idea with this group, but it wasn’t my call.

Hecate glided in on her spiked heels, paused at the door to the meeting room long enough to crook a finger at me, then flounced off. I followed.

Of course I followed. If the goddess of witches and necromancy tells you to follow her, you follow her.

She was already seated at the head of the table, eyeing my handiwork. “Good. You even placed my gavel correctly.” She plopped her book on the table and patted it. Her nails were frosty pink and filed to sharp points. “Tonight we’ll be finished with this. Did you find me a new one, yet? I’d like to tell them what to start on next before they leave for the night.”

Her eyelashes were incredibly long. I wondered if they were fake. Or magically grown.

“Oh. Yes. Hang on.” I raced to my desk and grabbed my book, then hurried back. “Here.” I pushed it toward her across the table.

She picked it up between two fingers as if it were a dirty dishtowel, her lip curling on one side. “This is…horror.”

“Yes.” I kept my face neutral.

She sighed and put it down, pouting. “I was hoping for something that would enrich the minds of my girls. Teach them about the human condition.”

“Who says horror can’t do that? Or any genre, really. It depends on the book, not the genre.”

She leaned forward and fixed me with hypnotic eyes. “Did you feel enriched after reading this?”

I shrugged. “I felt entertained. A little terrified. I don’t know about enriched. Maybe?”

She flipped the book over and read the description. “It has cats.” Her eyes flashed at me. “Why didn’t you tell me that in the first place?”

“Then you want it?”

She gave me a slow, satisfied smile. “Oh, I most definitely do. And I’ll want you to lead the meetings while we’re reading it.”

The small woman with the shock of dark hair—I thought someone had called her Nyx—waddled in and gave me the distraction I needed to duck out.

Holy crap. Things just got more complicated.

~*~

The Hags of the Underworld were fairly subdued that night. They managed to only break one glass. Most of the food was eaten rather than thrown, and they left by 2:00 AM. Parker was going to love that.

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