This Is Halloween: A Reverse Harem Christmas Story by Melody Rose

Author:Melody Rose [Rose, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-14T06:00:00+00:00

17

Jack

After the meeting, and then my disappointing conversation with Margo, I didn’t want to be around anyone. I couldn’t bear to see the townsfolk’s disappointed or pitying looks. The things Margo had admitted to the town about Christmas had completely snuffed out what little flame of excitement or hope I’d had left. I felt like a hollow, sucked-out husk or like a scarecrow left out to rot. Not to mention the moment that had passed between us. I was so sure that she had felt the same way about me, but she’d quietly set down her glass and excused herself, and now she’d gone back to spend the night with Wraith again.

As I walked home, I couldn’t help but picture all the things those two might do together. I didn’t want to think about her underneath the monster that used to be my friend, but it kept flashing through my brain, anyway. My fingers clenched into painful fists as I imagined what she might sound like as she was pleasured by him, and by the time I reached my house, I was a tumult of emotion. Confusion, disappointment, grief, and arousal all swirled within me like a storm, and I could barely open my front door because I was shaking so bad. I needed a stiff drink and an early bedtime. The past twenty-four hours had been a fucking nightmare, and that’s saying something coming from the king of Halloween.

I threw open my front door with a bang, totally uncaring whether it damaged the wood. Cerberus popped up from his doggy bed, took one look at my face, and plopped back down. I guess I wasn’t good enough company. I couldn’t blame the creature.

I slammed the door shut, ignoring the dead leaves that blew their way in. One flew over into Cerberus’s bed, and his heads started pulling it apart and batting it around. I kicked off my shoes and grabbed a bottle of whiskey from the bar cart in my living room. I didn’t even bother mixing it with pumpkin juice or any of the other Halloweenland staples. I took a long swig straight from the bottle and grimaced. Cerberus stopped playing with their leaf to look up at me with what I imagined was disapproval.

I tilted the bottle at the furry, floppy ball of a puppy. “Hey, I don’t need you judging me too.” Three sets of brown eyes looked up at me expectantly, and I sighed. “Okay, okay, I’ll drink upstairs. Wouldn’t want to offend your delicate sensibilities.”

I trudged up my staircase with the bottle in my hand. Up in my observatory lab, the temperature felt at least ten degrees cooler, and I shivered against the icy finger of wind that swept through the room. More dead leaves and bits of tinsel fluttered around the untidy space. I was messy up here, but not totally careless, and I was confused to see that one of the leaded glass windows had been propped open.

“Good going, idiot,” I muttered to myself as I went to close it.

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