scars bothered her aunt. After all, most people were offered counselling these days for things like scars and the incidents that lead to them weren’t they? So why should Jane be any different? Tessa had just assumed that because she had them for so long, they stopped bothering her.
Idiot, she berated herself as she wriggled in the chair, reaching inside her back pocket for the note that had been left with Spud.
“Are you ok for time?” Jane asked as she took the folded paper form Tessa’s outstretched hand. “I’m sorry, I should have asked you that earlier.”
“What, before you decided to get me drunk? As a role model … hate to break it to you... but you’re crap!” Tessa teased as she reached for the wine bottle on the table to refill her glass.
“Pffft! Role models, who needs ‘em!” Jane dismissed with a wave of her hand, wrinkling her nose and crossing her eyes.
Tessa laughed. “Yeah, I’m fine,” she admitted. “I fed him before I came out and left them watching a game on TV. All boys together!”
“Now the question would be, fed who?” Jane waggled her eyebrows suggestively.
“Oh behave you! The baby, I fed the baby!” Tessa retorted quickly. Although… what would it be like to feed Feral? He was a vampire and she heard that, in the right circumstances, a Vampire’s bite could be pleasurable.
In fact, some of the girls she worked with hung out at one of the paranormal joints in town, Moonlight and Magic, just for that reason. Hoping to catch the eye of a local vamp for a … well, it gave a whole new meaning to the word necking! They often asked if Tessa fancied joining them but the thought of a guy biting her neck just turned her right off.
Until she met Feral.
She shivered slightly, the thought of the large vamp back in her room getting all up close and personal enough to bite her neck… and everything else that came with it… sent shivers down her spine. Yeah, she could quite happily get all up close and personal with fang-boy. Preferably the sooner the better!
“Heeeelllloo? Can I bring you back to the land of the living for a moment?” She blinked as Jane clicked her fingers in front of her face to get her attention. She had been staring into space, lost in her own erotic daydreams.
“Huh. Sorry, zoned out there or a moment. Been a long day,” she apologised, trying to ignore the heat in her cheeks. “I was expecting a quiet night in with a movie and a tub of Ben and Jerry's.”
Jane nodded sympathetically as she opened the note. “Then tall, dark and handsome showed up?”
“Uh-huh, carrying small and cute, complete with dirty diaper,”
“Niiiice…. holy shit!!”
Jane’s voice was shocked enough to bring Tessa half out of her seat, looking around to see where the fire was. Then she realised Jane was staring in shock at the note she’d given her.
“What? What is it? What’s it say?” she demanded, realising whatever it was it had her normally talkative aunt speechless.
Jane looked up. Her eyes held a stunned expression. “I think you might have brought world war three to my hotel!”
She'd been right. Tessa walked back to their hotel room sometime later, deep in thought. The baby was a Morrigan, that much she managed to read for herself but Jane knew the language far better than Tessa. More years to study as well as having the advantage of dealing with all sorts of Fae on a daily basis.
The note had been brief and to the point. Explaining that the baby had been stolen from his family because his mother was a Morrigan, the note maker said she regretted what she had done but hadn't had time to return him as she was being tracked. There were vague references of what 'they' wanted to do to him. She, whoever she was, had asked forgiveness for what she'd done and that they keep the baby safe.
What was puzzling Tessa though was, why the baby had been left on Feral's doorstep in the first place? She could understand leaving him there for protection. After
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