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Zazie suddenly pulled her face away from my chest. “Huh? What do you need?”
“A few gems and artifacts that are very lost to time,” I admitted with a growl.
Zazie straightened and then looked at Samael, but then the witch, probably because she had the friendlier face. “I think I can help.”
“You can, huh?” The witch smiled, not seeming surprised. She picked her cat back up in her arms and scratched it behind the ears. “How so?”
“I have a gift,” she said. She then turned to us. “There’s nothing much I can’t find.”
Wendy smiled and then looked at Samael with a gloating expression.
“I’m not bringing you into the middle of a godforsaken desert,” I assured her, swiping my hand through the air. “I’m keeping you safe. Figuring out some sort of fortress situation!”
Yeah, that would work, I decided, now that I’d said it. She wasn’t dangerous, and she was one-of-a-kind. I was going to protect what was mine.
I hadn’t even known her for long. I had only been inside of her once. But she represented a dream that I’d dreamt every day for the last thousand years.
And I wasn’t giving that up.
Yes, she was very, very worth it.
Come hell or high water, we’d have to keep that girl safe.
“All I want to do is keep her safe. You’re a witch—tell me how to make that happen,” I told the girl, who was smiling a strangely serene smile. “Spare no expense.”
“Oooh! Spare no expense?” the cat suddenly chimed excitedly in her arms. “Wendy, did you hear that? A dragon said to spare no expense!”
The talking cat was a little much when my nerves were already working at maximum capacity.
And really, it made me nauseous. It was like something out of a disgusting nightmare.
The cat looked me over with his huge, yellow eyes. Eyes the color of moonlight and rotting pears.
This, I couldn’t handle. I had to run out of the room to throw up, hearing in my wake, “Was it something I said?”
CHAPTER 14
Zazie
Well, it was a night of no sleep. It was possible I’d never sleep again. I missed the time when two dragons taking me captive was my biggest worry. Those were simpler times, happier times. I had orgasms in those times. Would I even orgasm again? My brain felt like it was going to combust and come out my ears any second.
Miles was the only normal person in this mansion, and therefore I shouldn’t have been surprised when he walked into the room and brought me clothes. Panties, too. Apparently, he let his dragon employers kidnap girls, but after that he was at least up for making them breakfast and dressing them like they weren’t sex slaves.
I didn’t know how the guy figured out my shoe size, but he did, and was working his way into my heart by having done so.
I might have been surrounded by chaos, but at least I was dressed. “Where are the guys?” I asked him.
“Talking to the witch still,” Miles said as if pained. “Did you see a talking cat out there? Caspian did not do well with it…”
“Yeah,” I sighed. Caspian was a very large, very noble-looking sort of man. He had heard a lot that night, done a lot. I didn’t know how the cat had upset him so much that he got sick.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been so surprised that he was a weirdo.
“Believe it or not, he was not the weirdest part of my night.” I raised an eyebrow—Miles didn’t look odd. He looked like a thin man in his mid-forties. He was trimmed up, clean shaven, well-dressed… There was nothing out of place. “You’re a human, right?” I still felt like I had to make sure.
“Yes. I mean, I’m a human who’s seen all the world wars, but yes. When Caspian made me his familiar, he was good enough to slow the aging processes considerably. I only put on a year for every five or so. So, I’ve been fortunate enough to live in a time where I danced the Mashed Potato unironically,” he informed me, giving me a slight grin. I think he was trying to make me smile. If I looked anywhere near how I felt, then it probably looked like I would never smile ever again.
I was still reeling from the revelations about my father, Seraphus. Like seriously? He needed to eat me? That seemed like a little much, and I didn’t quite know how to handle that. I mean, how exactly are you supposed to swallow the fact that there is someone out there that has the sole mission of trying to capture you just so he can eat you and gain shitloads of power as a result?
