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“Percy, what’s wrong?” Kevin demanded. “Who the fuck is that?”
“That man is a demon hunter. He’s here to kill me.”
CHAPTERNINE
Kevin’s eyes widened.
The fire marshal was actually a demon hunter and followed them to kill Percy.
What the fuck?
He had a thousand questions, but right now getting Percy out of there safely was all that mattered. He dropped the cue stick on the table and grabbed Percy’s hand. “Come on. There’s a back door, and we… What the—?”
Percy had changed clothes again. More than that, he was a completely different person. He was an old man with a gray beard in a blue denim jacket. He squeezed Kevin’s hand, his voice still his own as he teased, “I do so love a good back door. Let’s go.”
Kevin pulled Percy behind him as he hurried to the rear of the bar. He ducked into the hallway toward the restrooms. He wasn’t sure how, but he knew exactly how to get out of there. “This way, gramps!”
“Was this in the damn movie?” Percy asked.
“No, uh. I don’t think so.” Kevin led Percy down to a door marked “employees only” and went right through into a kitchen. He mumbled some quick apologies to the bewildered staff, but he kept moving until they hit the back door that led out into the alley behind the bar.
He squeezed Percy’s hand as they neared the truck, and his chest felt heavy and weird. He let go of Percy to unlock the passenger door. He ran around to the other side to do the same and glanced back at the bar to make sure they weren’t being followed. He quickly got in and cranked the truck.
Percy smacked the dashboard.
While the interior of the truck remained unchanged, Kevin watched as the hood warped and turned into that of a small black sedan. “Whoa. That’s a pretty fucking cool trick.”
Maybe it was the adrenaline, but Kevin didn’t think his voice sounded right.
“I swear I will restore it to its rusty glory once we’re out of here, but for now, a little bit of a disguise will help us all.”
“Don’t worry, sweetheart. You’re beautiful just the way you are,” Kevin promised the truck as he reversed out of the parking spot and then peeled out onto the street.
“So are you, peaches,” Percy said with a bat of his eyes. “This isn’t exactly how I pictured getting you into lingerie, but I’ll take it.”
“What the fuck are you…” Kevin recalled his chest feeling weird earlier, and he looked down to find he’d somehow grown a pair of boobs.
And wide hips.
And red nails and oh God, he was a girl.
“What the fucking fuck?” Kevin nearly drove into the side of a building as he looked at himself in the rearview mirror. A pretty young woman with long blonde hair cascading around her shoulders was staring back at him. His voice was a woman’s too, a squeaky and high-pitched one as he groaned, “Oh no, no, no, no.”
“It’s temporary,” Percy soothed. “I had to change our appearances, all right? Sebastian knows what I look like. He saw me at the bar the other night, which means he probably knows what you look like as well.”
“Wait, you know him? How do you know he’s a hunter? Why the hell is he after you?” Kevin focused on the road and managed to keep the incognito truck in the lines as he sped back toward the interstate. He hated how he sounded to his own ears now. “I thought you retired!”
“Retiring doesn’t make me any less of a demon!” Percy groaned. “Listen. One thing at a time. When I first visited your crusty liquor barn and had myself a drink, I realized someone had blessed the glass. Burned like hell, no pun intended, and trust that no one randomly sanctifies barware unless they’re hunting for a demon. Being the absolute badass that I am, I finished my drink and acted like everything was fine. I guarantee that towheaded twat or one of his men was certainly there watching, and he decided to follow us here!”
“But how do you know his name?” Kevin pressed.
“Sebastian Something Italian. I don’t remember the rest! The same way you know who the Kardashians are even if you’ve never watched their vapid programming! Demons talk, they pass around his picture. We know who hunts us, all right?”
“You didn’t think at any point to mention a fucking word of this?” Kevin snapped.
“No! I made it through the stupid little test and when no one tried to kill me, I was certain whoever it was had moved on,” Percy argued. “This isn’t the first time I’ve had to deal with demon hunters. It is, however, the first time I’ve been hunted by Sebastian.” He sighed. “We need to pull over somewhere. Soon.”
“Yeah, so you can fucking change me back,” Kevin grumbled. “Do you want me to stop now or find somewhere farther away from here?”
