‘I absolutely do not. It was just good sex.’I hesitated.‘Okay, it wasgreatsex, but that doesn’t mean anything, Cass. You know that. You have good sex all night long, every night, and you rarely hit the same girl twice.’
‘Yeah, but you’re talking about good sex, not great.’
‘Same difference.’I hurried to change the subject.‘I need you to case the place. She was seen at the hotel the other night. But don’t let her know you’re on to her.’
He laughed again. This time he went on and on, before finally wheezing across our link.‘You’re saying you want me to find her, but not be noticed. Have I got that right?’
We’d worked a hundred jobs together. He knew the drill.‘Of course that’s what I mean.’
‘Have you met me?’my pink-haired, beer-bellied bestie asked.
Damn. He had a point.‘Then you need to get your happy, furry ass back here and let me case her.’
‘Uh-unh. Not gonna happen, hon. Sorry.’
‘Why not? This is a case we’re talking about. Drop the bimbo and get back here.’
‘No can do. I’ve got two saucy fae lined up. Two, Evie. And I’ve already bought them their first round of drinks. They’re not going anywhere but upstairs with me. Besides, if shit goes down here, you need me for backup.’
For a beat, I didn’t say anything. How the beer-loving imp got this much action was one of the universe’s great mysteries. He must have a giant—I pushed the thought out of my mind and shivered a little.
‘Two. You can’t ask me to give up on a threesome,’he pressed further.
I groaned. Could I deny Cass his one true happiness? A threesome with fae?
‘Fine.’
‘Thanks, girl. I owe you one.’
‘You owe me a hundred, you horndog,’I shot back playfully.
‘So, we’re even.’
Yeah, we probably were. The imp had saved my ass more often than I cared to remember. I totally owed him a threesome.
‘Ask the vamp to stay while you head out,’Cass suggested.
‘The lawyer?’
‘Yeah, why not?’
‘Because he’s a vamp, that’s why.’Honestly, did Cass think he would actually come house-sit for me?
I felt Cass telepathically shrug.‘You never know. Miracles happen.’
Yeah, but did they happen to me?
‘Gotta go, Ev. The girls are getting feisty.’
Yuck. And just like that, the fucking imp was gone. Huffing, I threw my hands in the air, and got up from the couch.
Beyond the Black witches and wizards, I didn’t know anybody else in town, and I’d rather commune with a viper than any of them. Maybe Ishouldcall the vamp? What was the worst he could say?
I stalked through the living room toward the nook where Gran took her coffee, and where I’d abandoned my cell days ago. Powering it on, I prepared to march around the property to try to catch a signal.
The front door creaked open as I pushed it, and that’s when I noticed the wolves outside. Two hunky young werewolves with their shirts off were sawing at an old tree, right at the edge of my property line—at least the one Gran claimed. It was nearly dark out, after dinner. What the hell were they doing?
I yanked the door open all the way and stomped across the porch in my bare feet. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
