Spell Cat by Tara Lain

Author:Tara Lain [Lain, Tara]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Nicholas Karonoff took the cell from his ear. There she was. Dot of eleven. She

didn’t give him overt reasons to be angry with her. He watched her walk from the entry

hall. Clearly, she’d been crying, damn the witch. He didn’t like the report he’d just

gotten from that idiot, Jonesy. “Lavender!”

The Aloysius Tales: Spell Cat

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She stopped in the archway to the living room but didn’t come in. “Yes, Papa?”

“I wish to speak to you. Please come with me.”

He led her down the hallway to his study. He wanted to grab her arm but knew

better. He knew not to touch someone he loved when his anger was hot. He’d learned

that with a couple of wives. Of course, in Russia, the authorities thought differently

about such things than they did in this country.

Inside the room, he sat behind his massive mahogany desk. She sat across from

him. She was his daughter, all right. Usually being before him at this imposing desk

made people cringe. Not Lavender. She looked him straight in the eye with no fawning

or wheedling.

He stared at her for a moment, and she stared right back. Such a pretty girl to be

so impossibly stubborn. He held up his cell phone. “I have been receiving reports on

your fiancé.”

She looked startled but quickly recovered. She was a cool customer, as the

Americans said. “You don’t think it surprises me that you have him watched, do you?”

Her insolence inspired a little pride. So like him. “Are you aware that the Master

Witch consorts with known homosexuals?”

She sighed. “That is hardly surprising, since everyone above the age of three in all

of witchery is aware that Killian is a homosexual, and the fact that you all choose to

ignore that reality and go on with this sham wedding is a travesty.”

“Nonsense. It is a lifestyle he chooses. He is supposedly the most powerful witch

in generations. He can decide to live another way.”

She shifted in her seat and crossed her arms over her chest. “Oh, Papa, that is

ridiculous and you know it. Killian can no more decide to be heterosexual than I could

suddenly decide to be a man, and I’m very nearly as powerful as he. Even witches are

subject to certain laws. You know we may change other physical matter or even simple

animals, and we can change people’s perceptions of us, but we cannot change our own

biology any more than a human can.”

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He gave her a tight smile. “Yes, well, the known homosexual in question is a

human.”

Ah, now she looked uncomfortable. Good. Squirm, girl.

She shrugged. “So? Killian lives and works in the human world. I’m sure he

knows human homosexuals as well as every other kind of human.”

“One he chose to spend the better part of a night with and whose company he was

seen to leave looking thoroughly debauched.”

She was silent.

He leaned back in his chair. He enjoyed sparring with her, but this was no game.

“It appears your erstwhile fiancé has chosen to compromise his abilities given by the

great Powers by sexually consorting with a human.”

She leaned back and sighed. “You don’t know that.

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