Page 30 of The Human’s Heart

“Yeah…”

“Well, I’m pretty sure this girl’s spelled.”

There was another long pause. “Tell her you’re taken.”

The fierceness of those words made me smile, and I almost laughed out loud at his possessiveness. I loved hearing it, feeling it. But I didn’t like him thinking there was any kind of issue or that I would do anything like he was thinking.

“Isa mezelie, you’re mine, and I’m yours. No one and nothing will ever change that. This woman is just being friendly. But yeah, babe, I’ll make sure she knows.”

“Good boy.”

This time, I did laugh out loud at that. “Don’t be an ass.”

“Jesus, we’re spending way too much time with your grandparents. They’re rubbing off on me.”

I chuckled, shaking my head as I found my seat in the lab.

Beatrix asked me, “What’s so funny?”

Oh. What a perfect opening. “My viramore said something funny about our family.” I gave her a grin and a shrug. To Hugo, I said, “I just told her.”

“Good.”

Beatrix blinked at me, then smiled widely and let out a strange sort of squeal noise. “You have a viramore?”

“Yep. His name’s Hugo.”

“Oh, my god. That’s amazing. Wow. I’ve always dreamed of finding mine. How did you two meet?”

Relief soared through me. Sometimes, when my incubus-ness was making someone clingy, they reacted badly to being turned down. I was extremely relieved that Beatrix was being sweet about this. So I told her a little bit about how we met until our class started.

Chapter 9

Hugo

Jett sidled up to me in the break room where I was stuffing my wallet and keys into my locker. “Did you see the new guy?”

I lifted a brow at him. “I literally just walked through the door.”

“You walked right past Drin’s office. He’s in there.”

“Oh. No, I wasn’t paying attention. I think I might’ve waved at Drin, but I don’t remember.” Drin was the owner and manager of the bar, and I really liked working for him. He’d been good to both Jett and me since my very first day.

Jett sighed dramatically. “You’re useless.”

I gave him a push as I laughed, then I quickly tied my apron on as he did the same. We wore server aprons, not baking ones, so they were only around our waists and had a billion pockets. They were very handy in the bar and restaurant business, if I was being honest.

As we headed for the doorway, I leaned in and whispered, “Hey, did you know that Drin’s a drow?”

Jett froze and looked up at me with wide eyes. “What?”

I nodded. “He’s a drow. Zay told me.”

Zaos had mentioned it in an offhand comment, and I’d been shocked. This entire time, I’d thought my boss was human.

As I’d told Sebastian a few weeks ago, I was really bad at sensing who was human and who wasn’t unless someone did magic right in front of me. Jett was just as bad as I was to the point that before we’d met our viramores, neither of us knew we had supernaturals in our lives at all.

“That’s… that’s… wow.” Jett’s eyes were wide for a moment before he closed them and shook himself out. “Okay. Let’s just… set that aside to gossip about when we’re… somewhere else.” He glanced around and lowered his voice. “I wonder if the new guy’s human or something else?”