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“I’m not really sure, and I’ve wondered that myself,” Iris admitted. “It could just be that these spells have been in use for a long time, and magic just expects to travel through those channels and is more efficient.”
“I guess if I found out I had magic as a woman back in the day, the first thing I’d try to do is make it do all my chores too.”
The timer for the oven dinged.
Thank goodness. I was ravenous and felt as if I could eat the entire roast by myself.
“Go grab the boys, and I’ll get dinner on the table.”
Chapter 14
Eamon
Enteringthroughaquaintwooden door with a round window, I took in the homey simplicity of the guest house. Perhaps house was a bit generous. It was more like a guest hut.
The place was small but well-made, with cedar logs on the outside. The inside was charmingly rustic, with wooden plank floors and a stone fireplace. It was a one-room affair if you didn’t count the door to the bathroom. There was a small kitchen area next to it with a sink and a hotplate—but no fridge—and a table just big enough for two, with two chairs. Chairs much too small to fit my larger frame.
There was only one queen-sized bed, and it took up most of the room. There wasn’t even a couch. I grinned. I wouldn’t need an excuse to have Tansy in my bed tonight.
Other than that, there wasn’t much more to the cozy cabin except for a dresser for storage and a large mirror sitting on top of it. There were two oversized t-shirts on the bed for us to sleep in. Nothing in here got my hackles up. Still surrounded by Iris’s garden, it was safe.
I put Nugget’s travel cage on the table and covered it with the cloth so she could sleep. The little bird was tired after an eventful day. She didn’t seem worried one bit about this place either.
I couldn’t help but notice that Tansy didn’t feel the same. Her posture was stiff, and she looked ready to run. She eyed the mirror with suspicion, as if she expected Amrita to float through the reflective surface the moment her gaze strayed.
I strode over to the mirror and turned it around to face the wall. “Better?” I asked.
“Better,” she agreed, though her shoulders didn’t relax. She shook her head. “I’m being silly. I know this place is safe, like the main house.”
“You’re not silly.” I’d be worried too, if some evil entity was trying to steal my body.
“I’m less afraid of her now that I’ve started to train my magic. I know a dusting spell won’t do much, but I feel more in control.”
“You are in control.”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence.” She didn’t sound entirely convinced.
I didn’t miss the fact that her eyes were now darting from window to window. It was dark outside, and with the lights on, the windows were reflective. I pulled the curtains closed, but that didn’t stop her from worrying.
“I have an idea.” I opened the dresser drawers and found extra blankets and sheets. Then I looked around the cabin for more things I could use.
“What are you doing?” Tansy looked at me, confused by my actions.
“I’m building a fort.” I wiggled my brows at her. “Everyone knows blanket forts are impenetrable to magic.”
She laughed. “You just made that up.”
“Me?” I clutched at my chest, pretending affront. “I’d never do that. I’m an honest demon.”
We spent the next little while building our Anti-Magic Blanket Bunker™. There were plenty of spare blankets, but finding the right structural support wasn’t as easy. I ended up moving the mattress, sheets and all, onto the floor and using the bed frame and chairs to hold up the blanket. Before long, we had ourselves the best blanket fort known to man and demon alike.
She didn’t look at the windows once during our build, which I considered a success.
I held open the flap to our impenetrable fortress. “Ladies first.”
To my surprise, she started to strip, pulling off her clothes and tossing them over the far side bedpost, the side we didn’t use for our fort. She must have caught me staring because she shrugged and said, “Those are clean sheets,” as if that explained everything.
She didn’t put on the t-shirt Alex had left for us. Instead, she bent down, still in her bra and underwear, and crawled into the fort. Her round buttocks wiggled in the air, covered with nothing more than a thong.
