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His father-in-law was just Lucy, a benign, not scary at all, regular old human.
Lucy scowled. “This is absolutely unacceptable, Merry.”
“What’s unacceptable is you thinking you can just waltz in here and dictate who I can and cannot mate.”
Ooh, unexpected bonus.
Family drama suddenly made this mating more palatable for his mate.
Sam grinned.
“Hm.” Lucy glared at the two of them, then abruptly waved his hand and said, “Fine. But you have to keep the two hell-kittens.”
Say what now?
“You’re constantly trying to pawn these kitties off on me and it’s just not going to work, Dad.”
“Well, in this case, it has to. You need a familiar for your demon side and another one for your witch side. Since you’ve got all that fairy blood, no earthbound familiars will do. So it’s hell-kitties or back to Hell with you.”
Merry let out a feral-sounding growl. “Fine. Fine. They can stay.”
“Excellent. I expect updates on the mating situation.” Lucy stood and held out his arms to the hell-cats who raced toward him and leaping, shrank down to normal, kitten sizes. He ruffled their fur, kissed their heads and murmured, “Be good for Merry, my loves.”
The cats jumped down and raced out of the room, heading who knows where.
Lucy whirled and pointed at Sam, though he directed his words to Merry. “He’s expected at our monthly family dinner in Hell. Don’t be late.”
Then, in a burst of actual, real-life, as in Sam could feel the heat, fiery flames, Lucy disappeared.
“Not bad, Soraya,” Tivali said. “How’d you know Satan would get her all riled up about her right to choose?”
“Eh, these humans are pretty predictable when you get right down to it, even the demonic, fairy ones.”
“I’m not convinced Merry’s going to give in just yet,” Bygul said, “but she’s definitely on the right path. Although I am not happy about those hell-kitties. There are entirely too many earthbound cats who need homes for us to be placing cats from other realms there.”
“Okay, so maybe we didn’t place any earthbound cats with our target demon-witch-fairy,” Soraya said, “but we did place a ton of earthbound cats with the other shifters.”
“She’s right,” Muezza said. “It doesn’t happen often.”
“Hey!”
“But this is a real success story, Soraya,” Muezza continued.
“Aw, thanks.”
“More than that,” Tivali said. “This was the most successful cat placement event of our careers. So far anyway.”
“Indeed,” Bygul said. “Nice job, Soraya. Now let’s get this mating nailed down so we can move on to our next target witch.”
The minute her father was gone, Merry whirled to Sam. “Don’t be getting any big ideas. I’m still not admitting we’re mates. I just refuse to have my father dictating my life choices, you know?”
“Hmm,” was all that Sam could say in response to that.
He was still pretty much in shock from all the big reveals.
Satan for a father-in-law and Hell-Kittens? The fates were asking an awful lot of a down-to-earth, working wolf.
Sam eyed Merry.
