Prey For Me: A Sapphic Demon Dark Romance (The Demon Court Book 1) by Chloe Slate

Author:Chloe Slate [Slate, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

"Hi, I'm April." I say to one of the only women that isn't paired up in the small bar.

She looks up at me, barely registering my presence. "Oh, um…hey. I'm Claudia"

"Can I…buy you a drink, Claudia?" The line is such a stereotype, I almost cringe, but I hold back enough to not ruin this before it even starts.

"Um, sure…I guess."

Rosalia is sitting in the corner, smirking at me. She's going to get to watch me embarrass myself while she gets to be all coy and aloof about the whole thing. In a way, the feeling that I'm being watched while subjecting myself to this is…I don't want to admit it's hot, but it is.

"Can I…what do you drink?" I ask.

Claudia's eyes are locked onto mine. "Whatever, I mean…anything's fine, really." She shifts nervously on her stool, and I'm terrified I'm going to break her just by talking. She looks…haunted. Maybe even more than me. She's at least in her mid-thirties, not that it really matters, but I just don't have much of a thing for older women. But, I guess I hope she's desperate enough that she'll reward my own desperation.

I turn away from Claudia to signal to the bartender to come over, and she does. "Hi, can I have…" I turn back to Claudia, "What are you having?"

"Soda, just…cola."

"Oh, um…make that two…" I say. The bartender rolls her eyes as she walks back to get us our drinks. I was planning on tipping her five bucks for each of them, but the way she acted means she’s getting a pair of grubby singles left under the glasses instead. Bitch.

“I don't…umm…I don't drink, my mom was…it was bad, so, I've stayed away from the stuff." The lie flows out of me without pause. Rosalia was right, it's easy to do. In reality my mom had wine with dinner a couple of times a week and never had a single issue with it…but my problematic fantasy mom could be the monster I needed right now.

"I've had issues with…stuff too. Alcoholism runs in my family, and so does liver cancer, and it leads to all kinds of other health problems.” Claudia looks down at her lap and nods her head slowly. "Not that I've been like…having health problems recently or anything…"

"Yeah, same. Not a lot of time for me at the doctor lately either…” I say, just sort of filling up the air with words because it’ll probably endear me to her more.

The bartender drops the drinks off and gives us about a tenth of a second of a smile before disappearing to more profitable patrons.

“So, uh…I don’t want to be presumptive or anything, but…” I do my best to look a little flirty, twirling the strand of hair Rosalia pulled out around my finger. “Are you here to just hang out, or…” I tilt my chest forward, making sure she can’t avoid a glance at my tits.

I don't think I'm being very smooth, and my words aren't working in any kind of helpful way, but it's still doing the trick.

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