Source (The Goblin's Ponygirl Book 3) by Cardui Vanessa

Author:Cardui, Vanessa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Staycation—Excerpt

Gail woke up on a pile of hay. Which was weird, because she was pretty sure she hadn't gone to sleep on a pile of hay. Also, there was a heavy metal cuff fastened to her ankle, with a chain that snaked back into the depths of the garage.

Right. The garage. She was in Jisi's garage. That explained… pretty much everything, actually.

Dating a goblin came with drawbacks, for sure. But there were also advantages. After last night, Gail was frankly impressed she could remember her own name.

But she was starting to remember. That crystal Jisi had put inside her… Gail had gotten used to its weight, the buzzy pleasant warmth of it. It wasn't there anymore.

She pushed up on one elbow, making the hay beneath her shift and poke her in sensitive places. Different sensitive places than it'd been poking her in before. Gail had been running more over the past few days than she had at any point since high school, and as she woke up, her muscles let her know that they didn't appreciate being treated like that. Other muscles too. Not the running ones. Moving was definitely a mistake, but a smile still spread across Gail's face, remembering how she'd gotten so sore.

Everything was bathed in a cool blue light, which came from a crystal hanging from the rafters, alongside bundles of herbs, and also a raccoon pelt which Jisi had said she'd won in single combat, but which she'd almost certainly bought from a dodgy online auction site.

Gail's clothes were there too, folded up on a corner of the work table. Idly, she considered the angles, the length of the chain on her ankle, the bolt where it was fastened. Yeah, she could reach her clothes. Get her phone, call Jisi. Or even call a locksmith to let her out, if Jisi didn't answer. It'd be a bit embarrassing, sure, but…

But it'd mean getting up. And Gail was tired, and sore, and the hay was—well, it definitely wasn't comfortable. It was scratchy and uneven and it made her nose itch like she was about to sneeze, without ever resolving into a sneeze. It did smell kind of nice, though. Most importantly, it was where she was, and staying there required zero effort on her part. Which, by an amazing coincidence, was exactly the amount of effort Gail was prepared to make at the moment.

How had Jisi managed to get a haystack under her while she was sleeping, anyway? For that matter, where had Jisi stolen a haystack from? Seemed like it would've been simpler to just give Gail a mattress and some blankets. Jisi had a mattress and some blankets in her guest room—Gail knew that, because she'd been sleeping in that guest room for most of the previous week.

Whatever! Gail didn't have to think about it, so she wasn't going to think about it. She pushed the hay around a little so that the sharpest bits weren't poking her in her most sensitive bits, made as comfortable a nest as she could, and snuggled down into it.

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