Becoming Effrijim (An Otherworld Adventure, #1) by Katie MacAlister

Author:Katie MacAlister
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dragon romance, demon romance, katie macalister
Publisher: Fat Cat Books
Published: 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

THE LIFE AND FABULOUS TIMES OF ME: SALLY, SOVEREIGN, BOSS BABE, AND BEARER OF THE CHALICE OF PARISI

20 June

“Terrin, darling,” I said to the man himself as he sat glued to his chair, a mountain of papers in six stacks of varying heights and levels of tidiness splayed out in front of him.

“Hmm?” he asked, not bothering to look up from his laptop. “Is there something you need, Sally?”

The nearest stack of papers quivered, just as if a sneeze would send them into an explosion of papery chaos.

I eyed the stack.

“No,” he said, an obvious warning in his voice.

I tsked and propped myself up on the unoccupied corner of his desk. “You know I love you to the ends of the earth and back, but, sugar, you can be such a wet blanket. Also, you understand me far too well for my comfort. But that matters not. Do you know a demon named”—I consulted my phone—“Effrijim? Apparently, it used to be with Amaymon, but was forcibly removed from Abaddon for some hullabaloo over a leviathan with romance on his mind.”

“Effrijim?” He looked up at the name, his mild brown eyes, brown hair, and general appearance of mildness making him look innocuous, naive, and possessed of a bovine level of intelligence, none of which was true. Quite the opposite, as a matter of fact, and once again I prided myself on picking the perfect partner with whom to run the Court.

“That’s the name,” I said, glancing at the text message again.

“There was a sprite named Effrijim who I seem to recall causing issues with our predecessor,” he said after a moment’s obvious dig through his (prodigious) memory. “I didn’t meet him myself, but the name is somewhat familiar. I believe there are some records concerning him that I can look up, if you like.”

“That little ... he was a sprite?” I considered pursing my lips, but as a dedicated alumnus of the Carrie Fay Academy of Really Nice Hair and Perky Bosoms, I confined myself to a raised eyebrow, instead. “He didn’t say anything about that. He’s a demon now.”

“It’s a demon,” Terrin corrected, his attention back to the paperwork he loved so dearly. It was one of the reasons why we as Sovereign had ruled so successfully for the last seven hundred years. “Demons use the ‘it’ pronoun.”

“Oh, I don’t think that’s going to fly these days,” I answered, still thinking about the demon. While I was naturally shocked and horrified that anyone would leave the Court, the idea of rubbing shoulders with all those demons and demon lords had a strange appeal to it.

Terrin paused for a moment. “I didn’t think of that, but you’re right. What with all the social justice and such, I’m a bit surprised the demons haven’t demanded new pronouns. Or are they happy with gender-neutral, do you think?”

“Sugar, much though I love keeping my fingers on the pulse of the Court, that power sadly does not extend to Abaddon.” Of their own accord, my lips pursed for a scant moment.

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