Out of the Pit by Holli Anderson

Author:Holli Anderson [Anderson, Holli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620075104
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2014-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

ariah had to get back to Moab because she had to work the next day. We got a couple of rooms at a hotel within walking distance to the hospital and ordered pizza delivery. Mariah hung out with us until late, when we all started talking about going to bed. She kissed Alec and lingered at the door a little longer. “Are you sure you don’t need me to come back and pick you up in a day or two?”

“Naw. We can just portal back.” Alec gave her one last quick kiss and Joe handed her enough cash to make it back to Moab. “See ya’ in a couple days.” Alec closed the door behind her.

Halli and I hung out in the boys’ room for a while after Mariah left.

I sat next to Johnathan on the dresser, leaning against the mirror. “So, it appears Alec has another talent we didn’t know about,” I said.

Joe’s eyebrows shot up. “Oh, really? Do tell.”

I blocked the pillow that came flying at me from where Alec sat on one of the double beds. “He got a little something from his dad’s side of the family.”

Johnathan stiffened. “What does that mean?”

I squeezed his hand. “Relax, John. Alec just used a little persuasion on the girl behind the desk at the hospital. He used it on Mariah in the camper, too, when she was mad at him. What he has referred to all this time as his chick-magnetism, good looks, and charm, has actually been a bit of Incubus-infused spell casting.”

Johnathan looked ready to pounce. “You’re like him? Like an Incubus?”

“Johnny, man, I didn’t know I was doing it. Paige told me afterwards that I was emitting something similar to… to the Incubus. I don’t think it’s the same thing, though.”

Johnathan looked at me. “Was it the same?”

I touched Johnathan’s face. “Not exactly. The girl was already well on her way to succumbing to his natural charms, he just gave her a little magical push. And, I believe him when he says he didn’t realize he was doing it. The shock on his face when I told him was real.”

Johnathan looked back and forth from Alec to me. “What kind of influence did it have on you?”

I rolled my eyes. “None whatsoever. Eww. The spell was just familiar to me—I recognized it for what it was. Relax. Alec is the offspring of an Incubus. That doesn’t mean he’s like his progenitor.”

Johnathan rolled his shoulders and relaxed his grip on my hand.

“Yeah,” Alec said. “I’m not like my pro… what Paige said. I mean, I like girls and all… a lot. But I want them to like me for me, not because I coerced them. It did come in handy at the hospital, though.”

“Just keep your special talent away from Paige,” Johnathan said, steel in his voice.

Halli piped up, “Keep your voodoo charms away from me, too.”

Everyone laughed and Alec threw a pillow at her, which she promptly karate chopped to the floor.

“I’m pretty sure we’re immune to his charms, Hal,” I said, laughing.

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