Problem was, that wasn’t where she went.
“She’s running out of town,” Wolf Boy noted.What the hell was his name?
Krishna.That’s it.He’d shown up at the city limits a year or so ago, a pitiful shaking mess of a wannabe werewolf, half the size he ought to be and with no self-esteem to speak of.
He’d come a long way since then, opening a pet store and by all accounts running a thriving business, making friends, and learning how to actually be a werewolf.But he’d obviously been bullied severely in his previous life, and every interaction with Selina sent him two steps back in his recovery.
“Damn it.”
Queenie said Daruka had wanted to check out the hellmouth.No doubt Daruka had managed to get specific directions out of the mummy who liked to believe no one had ulterior motives.
“Where are we going?”Krishna asked.
“I hadn’t actually intended for there to be a ‘we’ in the equation,” I muttered.
I heard his whimper, but I was too distracted to take back my caustic words.
I was distracted by Daruka.
Who was hovering on the bank of the moat the townsfolk had dug around the hellmouth as a deterrent in case anyone else decided they liked the idea of opening it again.
She stood in the deep shade of a mature ash tree, which did not remotely hide the fact that she was undressing.
I watched, dumbfounded, as she shed her sweatshirt, then a purple tank top, and finally her bra, revealing a pair of spectacularly bouncy breasts.They were large, really large, with blue tips the same color as her hair.Miles of perfectly smooth, creamy flesh I wanted to bury my face in.Or my dick.Underworld help me, what I wouldn’t give to fuck those breasts.
“Holy—” I clapped my hands over Krishna’s eyes while, like the depraved demon I was, I let my own feast and then feast some more.
I swallowed thickly as she shoved her leggings to the ground, and why in the hell was the woman undressing out here, in plain sight of anyone who happened to be passing by?Sure, few townsfolk wandered out here these days; we were all still fairly scarred from the last time the hellmouth opened.
But still!This was not the time nor place?—
She shoved black panties down her legs, and if I didn’t already belong there, I was most certainly going to Hell for watching her like this.Except she was the one who decided to shed all her clothes in the middle of the day not fifty feet from the end of Main Street.
Seriously, why was she doing this?
She stepped to the edge of the mossy groundcover that curled over the edge of the moat and then did a graceful swan dive right into the murky water.
A moment later, a blue-green fin burst from the depths, the scales catching in the sun and sending sparkling stabs of light at my eyes before the fish’s tail slapped the surface and disappeared.
I dropped my hands from Krishna’s face.
“Did I just see?—”
“No,” I practically growled.“And if you tell a soul, I’ll eat yours.”
He audibly gulped.“Right.I didn’t see a thing.But where’s Daruka?”
I pointed at the rippling water.
He squinted and inched closer.“She’s in the moat?Did she fall?Shouldn’t we, ah, help her?”
I sighed, following him.This kid was so clueless.“She’s a mermaid, Krishna.”
His eyes bulged as he searched the surface for signs of a half woman, half fish.“Holy cow.She said that’s what she was, but then she said she was a demon like you, and I guess I didn’t really think about it, but wow, half demon and half mermaid.That’s so cool.”
I had to admit, despite the rambling longest sentence ever, the kid was right.Daruka broke through the surface, headfirst, her blue hair flattened against her chest, hiding those beautiful boobs from my eyes.She leaped into the air, as agile as a dolphin, exposing the lower half of her body.Her milky skin faded into blue-green scales just above her ample hips, which narrowed into a shimmering fish tail that seemed to wave at us before it disappeared beneath the surface again.
And I couldn’t miss the abject joy on her face before she dove underwater again.
