Owl or Nothing by Willow Mason

Author:Willow Mason [Mason, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Barry had been downcast as he let me go. “You can rejoin the staff any time, once this situation’s over,” he assured me. Since it followed two minutes after my sacking, the words didn’t bring a lot of comfort.

“I can nibble into the bank vaults, if you need some money,” Dee offered when we returned home. “Or break into rich houses and steal all their jewellery.”

“I’d prefer to take the moral high ground,” I said, smiling at the thought. “At least for a few weeks.”

“Gabby’s rather distraught at news about her death.” Dee ran up her pole and sat on the kitchen counter, staring into space. “And she’s still rubbing her stomach all the time.”

“Perhaps she was pregnant,” Silvana suggested. While I’d held my hard discussion with Barry about the impending curfew, she’d disappeared. The sly smile on her face when she turned up later didn’t lend me hope she’d been behaving.

Well, good on her. The shifters would need someone to stand up and protest our unfair treatment.

While you just capitulated.

“Gabby would like to assure you she’s not some backwoods hick without the faintest idea of birth control.”

“It’s lucky Gabby is a ghost,” Silvana said with an arched brow. “Otherwise, Gabby might find herself on the wrong end of a sharp tirade.”

“I’m sure she’s used to that.” I lay down on the sofa, putting my arm across my eyes. “Still, it’s weird she can’t remember being attacked. You’d think it’s what would stick in your memory.”

“Car accident victims often don’t remember driving,” Caleb said in a small voice. He’d been remarkably quiet since we returned home, and I guessed he’d tuned into the announcement online or over the airwaves. “They wake up in hospital without the slightest idea of how they got there.”

“Why’s she a ghost, anyway?” Silvana propped her elbows on the counter and stared at Dee. “Not everyone who dies hangs around, do they?”

“Unfinished business,” Dee said promptly.

“Is that another version of ‘I don’t know?’”

Dee’s only reply was to start grooming.

“So, you’re all shifters, then?”

I pulled my arm away and stared at Caleb in surprise. “Well, sure. Did we forget to tell you that along the way?”

He sat perched on the edge of a dining chair, not the most comfortable option available. Even through the layers of bruising and swelling, it was easy to see his dismay.

“Hey, did I tell you the one about the lost hiker who I ate?” Silvana said, licking her lips and laughing. “Or the one where we tore apart the local townsfolk in the hope we’d become second-class citizens.”

“Third class,” Dee piped up. “I’m pretty sure we were second class, yesterday.”

“We’re no class.” I replaced my arm, shutting out the view. “Just a bunch of animals, isn’t that right, Caleb?”

“You didn’t think to mention this when we joined forces?”

“Hey, you’re the one who bowled up to our table, wanting to make an alliance. Then you wouldn’t even eat breakfast with us.”

“I’m vegan,” he said with a hint of pride. It made me want to bash the virtue right out of him.

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