“Absolutely nothing,” she said.
I’ve got plenty to be afraid of. I’m afraid that if I’m alone with you, I will take my clothes off and lick you from head to toe, and beg you to do the same to me, she thought to herself.
Still, she couldn’t see any way around it. Her family desperately needed the money – and there were a lot of visitors who would be disappointed if they showed up at her bed and breakfast and found no Santabot. “Fine,” she said with annoyance. “Change the document and I will sign it.”
He spoke to the piece of plastic, reciting their new agreement, and the new words appeared on the document.
Then he held the plastic out to her. “State your name and your agreement to these final terms, and press your finger on this square while you are doing so. Although I prefer the signing-in-blood method, I will accede to your human ways.”
She did what he said.
He pressed his finger on the square next to it and recited his name and his agreement to the final terms.
“Most excellent,” he said with satisfaction. “I will begin planning our dates, as you would call them.”
She declined to dignify that with an answer. Instead, she gathered up La La, climbed into her hovercraft and flew back to the bed and breakfast. La La smirked at her through chocolate-covered lips the whole way back.
She went inside to find Marjan in the kitchen, cooking.
“I agreed to let all of those scaly bastards stay here for the next two weeks,” Liza grumbled. “And I said that I’d go on three dates with the boss jerk, because he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. So I guess I just made a deal with the devil.”
“For the last time,” Marjan said impatiently, “I don’t understand your human ways. Is the Dragon Regis Satan, or not?”
“I’m beginning to wonder,” Liza said, and went to search for some aspirin to deal with her newly throbbing headache.
