Warm Winter Fantasies Collection by Melisse Aires

Author:Melisse Aires
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas Romance, sexy, medieval fantasy world, high fantasy, vampire, foundling, Christmas angels, baby, Santa, elves, dwarves, North Pole
Publisher: Pure Escapism
Published: 2018-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Right before seven Darci pulled into the parking lot of the Encanto Bay Café. It was a Spanish style building, two stories, with warm tiling and a patio with Christmas lights overlooking the bay. A few hardy types were on the deck and she wondered if she would be able to discern any Othernaturals. Some humans could.

She was dressed in a pair of black leggings she could wear to work, and a red and green floral tunic with a filmy ruffled hemline. She’d painted her nails red, put her hair up and put an inexpensive holiday choker around her neck. It was the most she’d dressed up in three years. For warmth she’d bought a fluffy black Angora sweater, way too expensive, but something she could also wear to work.

Inside it was packed, but Juana called her name. Darci located her by a long table near the band stage. “I saved you a seat.”

The other task force members greeted her with smiles.

A young lady came and took her order; she looked completely human, but was certain to have an Othernatural connection. A good looking man brought her the beer she ordered.

"Hello. I'm heath, owner of the bar. I want to say how glad I am to meet you and all the other members of EPCOH. It fills a need that has been unmet for decades here in southern California." Darci thanked him and shook his hand, which felt human.

"Is he a vamp?"Darci asked.

"No one knows for sure what Heath is. Burning question in the Othernatural community, and matter of much speculation. He has never told. Just grins," Juana said.

"Whatever he is, he keeps trouble out of the café and out of the community, too."

Darci sat back with the beer a server handed her and waited with anticipation for her meal to arrive. Juana, vibrant in her sexy red shirt and long dark wavy hair, was a regular at the Café. “The band starts at eight. It’s an Other band, False Awakening. I’ve heard they're good.” Juana pointed out witches—real ones— and vamps, shifters and weres.

“Weres and Shifters both tend to be in packs, but the women in a shifter pack may not be shifters, while the Weres marry within their clans.” She pointed out a table of Weres that looked like a Nordic family outing. “Witches and wizards, look for pendants and charms, or rings. Most of them wear awesome magical jewelry. One of my cousins makes a good living as a jeweler for local witches. Vamps—if they are good looking and hot, they draw your eye with their perfect teeth and hair, great bodies, those are probably vamps. Good looks are part of their hunting arsenal.”

Darci looked around nervously. “I thought only clan vamps were allowed in here. Not hunters.”

“Right. Yeah, that table by the deck, all vamps.” A group of well dressed, good looking men drinking imported beer sat together near the door. “Being good looking helps them keep volunteers around, too. Not every clan can afford blood crews.

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