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“So he stopped urinating on your doorstep?” MF had insulted the creature one day when he came into the shop for new slacks.
“Not yet, but I can tell my offerings are starting to have an effect. Yesterday, he only pissed on half the door. He seems to like Luna Bars.”
Damien shook his head. “Just do me a favor, and do not provoke anyone. Let me do the talking.”
MF nodded, clearly mulling on something. “Boss?”
“Yes?”
“What are you going to do about Sky and Willa?”
“I do not know,” he replied.
“Where’re they now?”
“I also do not know.” It had been a few days since he’d seen them for the first time in their new bodies. Neither woman looked the same, but he could recognize their anger anywhere. Once they learned that Cimil had brought them back so that they couldbothbe his partners, they stormed off.Just wait until they find out about Cimil’s new terms.
Or maybe best not to tell them?Damien had no way of getting a hold of either one anyway, though Sky did have a sister and nephew. It was possible that Sky had gone to seek them out.
“It is a good thing they are not here,” he said. “It will allow me time to think with a clear head.”
“Well, you know you can’t work with both of them, right?” MF said. “That would be a disaster—your most recent fling versus your pregnant ex-lover who died at the hand of her abusive husband because you refused to rescue her?”
“Who told you that?” he snapped.
“Cimil mentioned something. Is it true?”
Yes. One hundred percent. You are a bad man, tailor, and so am I. Two peas in a pod.
“Shut the fuck up,” Damien snapped at the beast.
“Jeez. Sorry.” MF held up her hands.
“I was speaking to…never mind. It is not true. Not entirely. So drop it.” The truth was that Willa had been a witch with great ambition, so she married a duke. And yes, Damien had slept with her afterwards. And gotten her pregnant.
Damien hadn’t been opposed to running off together, but she’d had other plans. Mostly, murdering her husband and having Damien pretend to be the duke’s long-lost brother, a brother who stood to inherit all the land and titles.
Damien had wanted no part of it, so they went their separate ways. Her husband had ended up poisoning her after suspecting the baby in her belly did not belong to him. It was a tragedy Damien blamed himself for despite Willa’s role. He should have taken greater measures to protect her.
As for Sky, she’d died because he had been distracted by an annoying sex fairy—Pet—who lodged herself in his nose while he was backing up his SUV. He ran over Sky.Poor, poor woman. Looked like a pancake. I’m a monster.Even worse, they fooled around after she became a ghost. And he liked it.
“Do you still love Willa?” MF asked.
“I love no one,” Damien grumbled.
“Liar. I know you love Sky.”
“If you recall, I ejected Sky from my life the moment I made the deal with Cimil to have Sky brought back to life.”
“Ah, but you did that out of concern, because you still believe anyone you care about dies.”
It’s true,his beast said. We are a wonderful death sentence. MF knows. She’s seen me in action. Maybe someday I’ll get to slit her throat while you watch, brother.
Damien snarled, “You arenottouching her.”
“What?” MF asked.
“Nothing.”
