Hellacious by Crystal-Rain Love

Author:Crystal-Rain Love [Love, Crystal-Rain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spirit Blizzard Press
Published: 2023-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Several hours later, I’d learned quite a bit about demons. The most important thing I’d learned was that they couldn’t die of boredom. Also, there were some very gross demons and I prayed I wasn’t one of them. Although, the more attractive ones didn’t seem all that great either, what with all the killing and stealing, and soul-sucking.

I was halfway through a ham and cheese sandwich and a quarter of the way through the big-ass demonology book when a knock sounded at my door. I lifted my head and glanced across the room to see night had fallen beyond my living room window, and instantly knew who my visitor was. At least he’d knocked.

“Come in,” I called out, despite the fact the door was locked. I wanted to test something.

Sure enough, my breath stilled in my lungs and the hunk of ham and cheese sandwich I’d just bitten off stuck in the back of my mouth as the doorknob turned, meeting with resistance, and I watched as the deadbolt turned and then the barrel bolt slid to the unlocked position. The knob turned again, the door opened, and Reese stepped into my apartment. He was dressed in his usual black shirt and pants combo, and one eyebrow raised as he did that almost-a-grin thing, knowing I’d known all along that the door had been locked.

I swallowed the now mushy chunk of sandwich and released the breath I’d been holding. “How did you do that?”

“One of my abilities.” He closed the door behind him. “I told you there weren’t many places I couldn’t get into.”

“Shit,” I muttered, realizing the implications. “How many vampires are there out there like you with that nifty and frightening trick?”

“Not enough for you to lose much sleep over,” he said as he approached me where I’d moved the demonology book over to the bar so I could read it while eating my sandwich. He stopped on the other side of the bar to examine my meal. “This isn’t your dinner, is it?”

“It is, actually. Why, what’s wrong with it?”

“This is a snack or, at most, lunch. You should eat better to build up your strength and energy. I told you your training isn’t going to be easy. This is just a ham and cheese sandwich. You don’t even have a vegetable here.”

I picked up the little bag of kettle-cooked chips next to my sandwich. “Wrong. I have potatoes.”

Reese looked as if he were fighting the urge to roll his eyes. “I stocked your refrigerator with food, including meat and vegetables. Real vegetables and lean meat. You really should have eaten something better than this.”

“Well, I hate to break it to you, but as much as I appreciate the grocery shopping you did, I’m not much of a cook and other than sandwich fixings and raw veggies, you didn’t get me much to work with. I’m an instant ramen, Kraft mac and cheese out of the box, frozen pizza kind of girl.”

Reese shook his head. “My

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