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“Treat it like a panic attack,” Rainer called from the kitchen.
“Fuck me. When you’re back to yourself, this meant nothing.”
Logan grabbed Caleb and kissed him. Well, I wasn’t going to do that, but it appeared to work. He briefly growled, grabbed her, and kissed her back, and then he was back to himself again.
And now he was embarrassed and flustered.
“Thanks. Sorry, I wasn’t expecting your dog to be a Hellhound. We didn’t know they could shapeshift or speak to us like that. You showed us this for a reason.”
“Yes. Pan isn’t evil. He’s the one who saved my life the night those people took my Mom. He’s been with me since. He’s saved my life countless times and now he’s saved yours. We need to do something about that hex because I don’t want to kiss you again.”
Yes, she did. She liked it. And based on the look on Caleb’s face, he did too. It wasn’t completely all the curse that kissed her back.
“How did you know that would work in the first place?”
“You were holding your breath and needed to breathe. It was the first thing I could thing of. And I’m sorry because I didn’t ask permission.”
“It’s okay. It worked. We’ve been researching the hex, but we don’t even know what it is. There’s a nail covered in thorns on my wrist and the thorns keep growing every time I get upset.”
“Can you behave if I get a witch in here?” she asked.
“Yes. I’m realizing a lot of what we were taught it wrong.”
“Rainer! Call Sasha and be nice to her.”
“I’m always nice to her!”
“Not in the way she wants,” Logan muttered. “Seriously, Sasha is aunt material, so you’d better not blow this for me.”
“We can behave. Aside from ruining a few pairs of my trousers, Pan isn’t evil. If your witch can help Caleb, I’ll buy her dinner,” Solomon said.
“You got pissed on because you showed up to jobs acting like you knew better than Logan. You haven’t gotten my pee on you once since you started listening.”
“How come you never peed on Saul?” Caleb asked.
Because yeah, Pan had never once peed on me. He jumped right in my lap when I was reading at the drag bar and he always sat with me. If a dog could shrug, Pan just did.
“Saul is a green flag.”
Whatever that meant.
Iwas lost in thought while we waited for Sasha to get here. Rainer was fine with her knowing the location of his safe house. He was into her, he was just too bone headed to actually do anything about it.
I shouldn’t have kissed Caleb. It was a knee jerk reaction to get him to breathe. I apologized, but I was still thinking about it. While the hex was receding, he grabbed me and kissed the shit out of me. Father Caleb was hiding a rock hard body and some serious skills with his mouth under that frock.
And I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I needed to jump in a cold shower or something because it would be inappropriate to masturbate in my bedroom with my uncle and three priests in the living room.
Thankfully, I was saved when Sasha showed up with Ariel, a hedge witch. Pan could eat hexes, but he needed to know what he was dealing with. Now that they knew the truth about Pan, he could help.
Rainer wrapped Sasha up in a hug and thanked her for the face cream.
“You hungry? I’ve got corn and crab bisque going.”
“First things first. Let’s look at this hex.”
Caleb had to go and take his entire shirt off to show how the hex had spread. I didn’t know if all priests were that jacked or just the ones who hunted monsters. Solomon was more wiry, and Saul didn’t have to try to be big and strong.
Why was I even thinking about this?
