Page 59 of Feline Good

“May you receive the justice you deserve.”

And with that, he was gone.

Epilogue

One year later

Giddiness flowed through Maya’s veins like molten gold as she shut the door behind the last patron. Finally, her night was almost over.

Or rather just beginning…

The sly thought passed through her mind as she turned back around, her boots thudding over the brand new, shiny hardwood floor of the bar as she walked right past Theo. Pausing at the hallway entrance, she turned to study her family’s bar. The golden threads in the tapestry featuring her three felines glimmered in the low, exposed lighting of the bar. The new lights also highlighted her favorite pieces of Asher’s art. He was in the process of opening his own gallery, but for now she was proud to showcase whatever he would give her.

They’d refurbished the entire bar with the Keepers’ funds. Apparently, if your family’s funds amassed interest over hundreds of years, you could live quite the nice life.

Maya still owned the bar, but she’d promoted Theo to manager while she’d taken time off to get used to her new… abilities.

Let’s go with that.

Yeah, she’d played hooky for a few weeks to get used to the new strength that never seemed to fade. Just like Ra promised them, her strength and agility stayed as strong as their bond. Her men literally couldn’t keep their paws off her.

Not that she was complaining. As a matter of fact…

She clacked her new piercing against her teeth, the metal ball resting comfortably on the top of her tongue.

Maya had a surprise for the guys, and it wasn’t the average candy and flowers.

Turning away from the beautiful bar that she would never grow tired of looking at, she turned and jogged to her office to finish up some last minute paperwork. The guys had been out all day, doing only the gods knew what.

She didn’t blame them. Maya had been gone from the bar for half the day, getting her new piercing and a little something extra.

Let’s just say her advanced healing, which came alongside the shifter strength and speed, would come in handy tonight.

While she was crunching numbers and entering payroll, her thoughts turned to the events of last year, surprised to realize it had already been so long. It seemed like yesterday.

After Sekhmet destroyed the only thing she loved to satisfy Ma’at and leave her prison, she’d disappeared. They didn’t know where she was to this day, and Maya was glad. She never wanted to see the woman again, knowing how close Maya had come to losing her men because of her.

After Sekhmet left, Ra had poofed them back to the bar, then up and disappeared in a beam of sunlight.

Naturally.

A lot of talks had followed their return to normalcy, as she and the guys figured out how to live a boring life. They’d all apologized profusely, for months on end until she’d finally told them to shut up or get out.

It was night and day, the way they fawned over her and catered to her every need, compared to the cruel coldness they’d showed her for all of a few hours.

It was in the past. And there it would stay.

Only a short while later, she shut her laptop with a sinful grin decorating her lips. The guys would be home soon, and she had just enough time to arrive before they did.

Calling goodnight to Theo, she winked when he leaned around the hallway wall to respond. Then, she was gone.

They didn’t live above the bar anymore. It had been cozy with just one person, but when you permanently added three other men to her one bedroom studio?

Hell no.

They had their moments. Messy, men moments. Like throwing their laundry right beside the hamper, or leaving their dishes beside the sink. Or even worse— in the sink with water to “let it soak”.

They also had what she liked to call their cat moments. When she cooked, they’d go back for seconds when they still had food on their plate, and then not even finish it all. If she got annoyed with them, all she had to do was break out the laser pointer. Never had she seen someone’s focus shift so quickly.