Page 93 of The Slayer Seduction

The Slayer bellows a laugh, deep and gravelly.

“Appears you got a demon one. My Scarlett loves me.”

“She’s my Scarlett,” I quickly say back, and the Slayer gives me a smirk.

She better not love him more than me. Walter doesn’t like anyone, but Violet and Ember’s familiars are too lazy to give a shit about anyone else. At least my sly little fox has a love for him. If not, it could make our lives a whole lot more difficult.

“Are you sure you want to go during work hours?” Violet questions again and I nod.

“It’s when they will least expect us, not to mention he won’t want to make a scene in front of all the mortals.”

“We do our best to limit mortal fatality as much as possible,” the Slayer agrees and Violet sighs, picking up Walter and cradling him to her chest.

“If anything goes wrong, we can be there at a moment’s notice. You promise to not be stubborn and ask for help when you need it?” Violet asks, and I shake my head.

“I’m not stubborn.”

“She is. I will call for help if my sweet Iris is in any danger. She mostly showed me how to use her pocket phone device.”

Violet gives me a smirk, finding the vampire slayer charming, and I can’t deny that he is.

“You ready?” I ask the Slayer, holding out my hand as we teleport our way to New Orleans in an alleyway outside the mayor’s office.

He nods while he searches the area for any threats.

I illusion us and hope that this is enough to get the job done. Once we have the book, we’ll need to figure out a measured way to go after the slayer himself.

The bustling government employees don’t appear to sense us at all as we walk up the steps, waiting for someone to open the door. The woman seems startled by the door taking longer to close, but writes it off as she heads down the hallway.

The map is in my hand. The floor plan for the mayor’s office isn’t available online for security reasons, but I don’t doubt the glowing dot we’re seeing is going to lead us right to her office.

In silence, shielded away from anyone’s eyes but our own, we make our way through the building. A secretary sits outside the closed door of the mayor’s office and I glance over at the Slayer, wondering what exactly should we do?

The secretary’s phone rings, and she answers it with furrowed brows.

“Yes, ma’am, and I’ll reach back out to the air conditioning company about having the ducts inspected. Yes, ma’am. Of course.”

The woman sits up from her desk and opens the door, propping it open with a doorstopper. She keeps her head down, not even glancing at the mayor as she backs away, leaving us with a wide-open door.

The Slayer puts a hand on my wrist, planting me behind him as we walk into the office that’s definitely too opulent to be paid for by tax dollars.

I have to tilt to the side to look around the Slayer’s body; the mayor is an uptight looking woman. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a photo of her where she’s genuinely smiling. Not living in the city, I never paid much attention to her politics or who she is, but now that I look at her, I know she’s pure evil.

She sacrificed her son, essentially killing him and letting a vampire slayer take over his body so that she could have this life.

I don’t even realize how hard I’m clenching my wand until my Slayer grabs my wrist. I relax slightly, giving him a tight nod, letting him know that I’m keeping my shit together.

That is, until the mayor picks up her phone again. “Holly, I’ve changed my mind. Shut the door please.”

Her obedient secretary doesn’t complain for a second; she just gets up and shuts the door, locking us in the office with this woman.

The Mayor suddenly leans back in her chair, steepling her fingers over her chest and I swear she’s looking right at us. She looks just like she does in all the photos, but somehow even more sinister in real life.

She laughs sardonically, shaking her head as she opens the top drawer of her desk and, to my absolute horror, she pulls out a wand.

The world seems to tilt on its axis as I realize this isn’t just a fight with the slayers, they have a witch on their side too.

We are so completely fucked.