(eng) P. S. Power - Eve Benson 03 by Dead Certain

Author:Dead Certain [Certain, Dead]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen

As something to do, since the plan for the night seemed to be sitting there, talking like they were at Denny’s, rather than going out, Eve winked at Ginger.

“Hey, I know, why don’t you go and make one of everything on the menu? We don’t have waffle cones yet. I keep trying for that, but the truth is I need to get on the interwebs and look some shit up. Lenore has a machine for it, but she’s managed to get busy somehow. I don’t really know what she’s doing. Taking a break, hopefully?” The woman hadn’t had a real vacation in longer than Eve had been alive, she was willing to bet.

Keeley nodded, her face looking a bit wicked, for some reason.

“I heard that she’s in the Swiss Alps right now. Zack bought a place for her, not too far from my father’s. Speaking of which, he was talking about you the other day.”

The look was still a bit too playful to be good, given the kind of being Keels was. It was hard to believe this was the same girl that she’d known in high school. The first girl Eve had kissed, even. At the time things had been a lot more innocent, but now, given all she’d seen and knew, it was easier to see the frayed edges of her act.

This wasn’t a young girl thrust into being a Greater Demon, which was how she’d always assumed the thing went. No, Keels was a powerful being, one that often made her own rules, that was playing the part of an attractive young woman because it suited her for the time being. Next week she could be eighty and running a retirement home, or a man, and trying to get all of them at the table into bed.

Almost as if she knew what Eve was thinking, her face fell a bit, but there was a somber nod, not a denial.

“It’s taken me a while to really adapt to everything myself.” It seemed to be coming out of the blue, but Felicia just sat there, ignoring anything had been said, and Ginger, understanding things or not, was busy on her own project. So really, only Eve got what was being communicated. Keels went on, her face turning to a happy expression, without smiling at all. It was subtle, and extremely clever.

Eve really needed to learn how to fake that kind of thing soon. Everything she did was too forceful all the time. It was either totally blank, in a resting bitch face that would make people from New Jersey feel right at home, or a bright and cheery smile that would probably be about right on a clown, or an actress in a McDonalds commercial.

Keeley actually laughed, clearly getting the idea from Eve’s mind.

Winking, the woman in front of her, who was less good looking than she used to be, even while looking the same, moved a bit, like she was restless.

“This place needs music. You should lobby Edom for it.

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