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A buzzing noise from behind me makes me whip around. Jessie is leaning against the doorframe. She has a smirk on her pretty face and holds her ringing phone in one hand. “You’re getting better, babe. Only three tries that time.”
I can’t stay angry when she directs her killer smile at me and drops her things to run and jump into my arms. Her mouth is on mine and her legs wrap around my hips before I can get out any words. For a few minutes, I’m completely distracted.
Then she breaks away. “It worked!”
I press my forehead against hers and pull together my scrambled thoughts. “It did?” Then my brain catches up. “What did you do?”
She pulls back and grins at me. “Broke the curse.”
I stare. “How?” My heart is thundering in my chest and my wings extend, threatening to knock several things off the coffee table. If she broke the curse, why do I still look like this? “Are you sure? Look at me.” I shouldn’t be so ungrateful. I’m lucky even to have found a woman like Jessie.
Jessie brushes my cheek with her palm. “I’m kinda glad it didn’t change the way you look, actually. I was worried you’d look different.”
“You were?”
She leans in and presses a soft kiss to my lips. “I like you just like this. I hope you don’t mind, though. Do you miss being human?”
I sit back on the sofa with an oomph when my legs give out under me. Shelikesthe way I am now? “Princess, I’d be happy being a frog if it madeyouhappy.”
She giggles. “Let’s stay with gargoyle, OK?”
I nod. “Deal.”
I slide my hands over her waist and down to the juicy ass I love so much. Jessie makes a little hum and grinds in closer. Then I stop. “How did you do it?”
“Do what?”
“Break the curse.”
“Oh! Well first I made Sethos tell me what to do.”
I lift a brow. “What did you have to do to get him to do that?”
She laughs. “I signed a contract to say I’d give Grand Theater first option to hire me for all upcoming shows for the next five years.”
I suck in a breath. “You sure that was wise?”
“Well, I figure Sethos wants to cast me in the leading role, then I’ll happily work at Grande. Besides, I don’t want to perform at a theater you don’t guard. As long as you’re happy to keep working there, of course.”
I grin. “A paid job with the best view in town? You better believe I’m not going anywhere else, angel.”
“See, so it wasn’t a bad idea.”
“But how did you do it?” I insist.
She grins. “I returned the ring. Took me about a month to track down the family it belonged to. Maurice’s buddy, the antique dealer, helped me out, and we found it. Then I contacted them online, to say I’d send it back if they wanted it. The tracked package arrived today.” She spreads her hands out and her grin grows wider. “And here we are.”
I gather her close and pepper kisses along her jaw and neck, then all over her face. “Fucking genius. So that’s it? I’m not trapped on my plinth during the day? I can sleep when you sleep and wake when you wake?”
She nods. “Sethos thinks so. Unless the family re-issue the curse, but they’d have to know the right spell.”
I make the sign of the cross over me. It’s funny what old superstitious habits come back to me at the strangest moments. I’m not taking any chances, though. “Let’s pray that never happens.”
“Mmm. Hey, you wanna find out if anything else is different? Are you hungry?”
I consider her question. I haven’t eaten in nearly one thousand years. Food can wait. I am starved for something, though. I smile. “I could eat.”
Jessie makes to get up from my lap and I pull her back down with a low growl.
