“After devouring so many of them you are, of course, an expert, my Queen,” Avnas said.
“My heart is not broken. Out.”
Xtelle narrowed her sparkling eyes. “Did you just order me? The queen?”
“You are trespassing in my home. Go away.”
“Oh,” Xtelle said dragging the word on and on. “He’s bugged the house, hasn’t he? I see.”
“No,” I said. “There’s nothing to see. Go away.”
“You can’t say anything because he might overhear you.”
“He hasn’t bugged the house.”
“Just stare at me stupidly if what I’m saying is true.”
I scowled at her.
“Yes. That’s the face. Your man is stepping out on you, but before we murder the woman right in the eye, we’ll need to discover her weaknesses.”
“Xtelle.” I stabbed a finger toward the open door. “Out. Leave Ryder alone.”
“I will leave him alone right in the gut,” she said, winking so much, it looked like she’d lost a contact.
“No doing anything to his gut. Leave Ryder and Vivian alone.”
“Vivian. The little hussy.”
I stared at the ceiling, but there wasn’t a god up there who was going to help me with an annoying demon unicorn. “Vivian isn’t a hussy. She’s a monster hunter. You need to stay away from her, and stay in pony form. No more pink unicorn while she’s in town.”
Xtelle lifted her nose again, staring down it at me. “Vivian Dunn is a monster hunter?”
“You know her last name?”
Xtelle shrugged, which looked a little weird on a unicorn. “She’s mortal. It’s easy for my kind to know names. Ryder is cheating on you with a monster hunter?”
“Ryder is not cheating on me.”
Shetsked, and Avnas shook his big bull head, horns almost knocking a brush, some socks, and a glass of water off my dresser.
“You are in denial,” Xtelle said. “That’s very common. Don’t be ashamed of yourself.”
“I’m not in denial.”
“Which is what someone in denial would say.”
“I am not ashamed of myself. Ryder isn’t cheating.”
“How would you know? Are you spying on him?”
“Of course I’m not spying on him!”
“Good. Because I am.”
Avnas cleared his throat.
“Fine.Weare,” Xtelle corrected.
