bedeviled & beyond 02 - bedeviled & bedazzled by cheever sam

Author:cheever, sam [cheever, sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction romance angels & devils, humorous paranormal romance, books romance angels & devils, Romantic Comedy, fantasy & futuristic romance, books futuristic romance, Demons & Devils urban fantasy
Publisher: Electric Prose Publications
Published: 2015-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Maternal Mayhem

A mother’s love is staunch and true, no matter what the test

But when her love is bent on power, she rarely shows her best.

“Blessed Be daughter.”

The traditional wiccan greeting was innocuous but somehow didn’t feel that way coming from her.

“Blessed Be. What brings you to this lowly place?”

Danika shrugged shapely shoulders and looked around, barely holding back a grimace of distaste. My mother found many things in life unpalatable. Among them, her family.

She turned back to my father and tried a warm smile. I didn’t buy it and I was sure my father didn’t either. We knew her too well. “Hello James. You’re certainly looking...human.”

The top of her smile curled up just the tiniest bit, just on one corner but enough to tell us what she thought of my father sitting in an ordinary diner wearing ordinary clothes. Always sensitive to status and power, my mother liked to forget my father was a powerless fallen angel without wings. Despite the fact that he’d fallen for her.

His allure to her had faded away with his wings and gossamer robes. And she’d never bothered to hide that fact.

“Hello Danika. I’ve been hearing bits and pieces about your activities from the other commanders. They’re very concerned with your current path.”

She dropped the smile and sneered. “They have no business monitoring my activities, James and you can tell them that for me.”

My father glanced quickly at me and seemed to make an effort at remaining calm. “Your life sphere encompasses many others, Danika. Your activities are of necessity important to the celestial army. You know it to be true.”

She flung a dismissive hand at my father and turned to me, affectively scorning him and his concerns. “I am glad we met today, Astra. I’ve been wanting to contact you. I wish to discuss your future. It is time I took a hand in guiding your choices.”

I stared at her for several beats, wondering if my brain had perhaps melted. Surely I didn’t just hear her say she wanted to start acting like a mother.

“It’s a little late for that isn’t it, Mother?”

She didn’t miss a beat. “On the contrary, Astra, it’s the perfect time. You are of a responsible age and your powers are growing. You will need guidance on how to use them.” She sent my father a brief but scathing glance. Her meaning was clear. Obviously she didn’t consider him adequate to the task of guiding me.

I had no intention of letting her “guide” me, but I never got the chance to tell her that. Two things happened at once. DD Raoul walked into the diner and stopped dead just inside the door, blinking in horror. And Emo shimmered in to stand beside me, a slightly agitated look on his face.

My partner spoke first, eyeing my mother as if she were a poisonous snake from Pluto, where the most deadly snakes in the universe existed. “Astra, we’ve found the hostages but we have to move fast. Alcott’s sent a superdemon to kill them.

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