Aunt Sophia chuckled. “Liz called to explain your little predicament. My niece needs to learn not to meddle with soul journeys. You’d think she would have learned her lesson after the last catastrophe.”
Dayna had done this before? Figures.
“I’m not following,” Aira said.
Lucifer appeared in his seat and grinned at me. “Niece, you are wearing the wrong body.” Aira’s mouth popped open as he turned his attention to Dave.
Dave shrugged. “I was an innocent bystander who got caught up in weird shit.”
Sure he was. I folded my arms and shifted my legs further apart while trying not to think about the chaffing. Nobody could pay me to take these jeans off to cover up Dave’s penis. If he wanted raw genitalia, then that was on him.
“Why didn’t you call me?” Lucifer asked.
I narrowed my gaze. “Why would I call you?”
He rolled his eyes. “Hello? My business is souls, and it didn’t occur to you to drop me a line so I could fix this?”
No, I had considered my father, but not Lucifer. Relying on the Devil more and more seemed like the road to ruin.
“I can put you back now,” he said.
I shook my head. “No, everyone back at the house is muddled up. It’ll be weird if Dave and I swap back.”
“Yes,” Dave drawled. “That’s what will appear weird.”
I shot him a look. “You wanna tell them how you had to hold your penis this morning?”
Sophia paused her crocheting, her lips twitching. “Yes, Dave, tell us more,” she said. Aira tried to hide her laugh behind her hand.
“Fine. After this, we’ll return and I can sort everyone out at the same time,” Lucifer stated. That was a relief. I’d had enough being Dave. “And anyway, I need to move into your house temporarily.”
Wait, what? No. “Are you remodeling your home or something?”
“No, but I have dealt with the most urgent issues in Hell and delegated the rest to my second. Right now, this situation with Eloise and Donn needs my full attention.”
“Find somewhere else to stay,” I said.
“I’ve already paid for my room.”
I would kill Maggie. It should not be necessary for me to explicitly state that we did not rent rooms to the Devil. Anyone could figure out that was a poor business decision.
“What happened with the House of Donn?” Aira asked.
I grimaced. “Donn isn’t really interested in Eloise. I believe using her was a means to get back to earth.”
“She’s leaving out the part where she gave them a vial of her blood,” Lucifer supplied.
My great-aunt smacked the back of my head. “Stupid child. You know better.”
“That’s what I said,” Lucifer muttered.
“That was their price for standing with us against Eloise,” I said, rubbing my head and scowling back at her.
“What, ten wannabe wizards? That was a poor exchange.”
“No, a thousand powerful mages.” Sophia’s eyes widened.See? It wasn’t so stupid after all.
“My sources tell me my sister is going to make her move in the next two days,” Sophia explained.
