Love's Misbehaving Magic by Heather Silvio

Author:Heather Silvio [Silvio, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951192204
Publisher: Panther Books

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Aveline hooted again, bringing Patty back into the bedroom, where she recognized she was playing with fire. She’d accepted the job offer from Elijah, including the one proviso that she not date Noah. Ave, of course, being the nearly eternal being that she was, thought Patty was doing the right thing.

“He means well,” the owl said.

“You think so?” Doubt dripped from Patty’s voice.

Aveline fluffed her feathers. “I do.”

“Then explain it to me like I’m a child. Because all I see is a parent trying to control a grown man,” Patty grumbled, sitting on the cheery yellow comforter on her bed. She propped her head with her hands.

“It’s like he told you, after the ridiculous thing about your familiars.”

Patty could practically hear the eye roll in her familiar’s words.

“You and Noah are at different stages in your lives, and you’re on separate paths.”

“But you support my going out with Noah,” Patty interrupted.

“I do. I’m explaining why Elijah thinks he’s doing the right thing.”

“Oh yeah.” Patty collapsed back on the bed, listening to Ave.

“As a father, since he believes you and Elijah aren’t right for each other, he’s encouraging you not to start down what he sees as a negative path.”

Patty bolted upright and jumped from the bed. “You don’t think he offered me the job solely to keep me from Noah, do you?” She struggled to keep her voice from breaking.

“I do not.”

“Okay, good.” She picked a brush off the dark wood dresser and ran it through her hair. The strands fell back into place.

“What’s going through your mind right now?”

“It made sense to accept the agreement in that moment. Noah had told me no when I asked him out,” she said, more to her reflection than to her familiar. “I didn’t have anything to lose, and everything professionally to gain.”

Patty met Ave’s eyes in the mirror over the dresser and offered a wicked grin. “I’m dating Noah. By the time Elijah figures out what I’m doing, Noah and I will be a couple, and he’ll never take the job from me.”

Despite the assurance in her voice, the quiver in her belly told Patty she wasn’t quite as certain of that outcome as she portrayed.

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