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forehead. “You don’t have to suffer this, Muriel. Let me call David. It will be okay. You’ll enjoy it. I know you will.” I hit him in the solar plexus, and while he wheezed, I rolled out of bed and stalked into the bathroom shouting over my shoulder at him. “I am not having a fucking orgy. So stop throwing your buddy at me!”
    Then I was struck by a thought and I poked my head back out of the bathroom and looked at him speculatively. “Are you bi?”
    Auric’s face was almost comedic. “Most assuredly not,” he sputtered.
    “Just making sure. You seem awfully keen on getting another guy to join us.” Auric came off the bed, six foot something of yumminess, taut with anger. “I am not into men, nor am I that keen as you say, but I won’t watch you waking up screaming for the rest of your life. Have you even considered how vulnerable this spell makes you?
    Don’t you realize if the master shows up, you’ll be useless against him?” I quivered and my knees gave out. Auric caught me before I hit the floor. “Baby, you’ve got to see. It’s the only way. If I can handle it, why can’t you?”
    “Because I’m afraid you’ll look at me differently after,” I said voicing the truth. I know, honesty, what a concept considering my parentage.
    “Muriel, this isn’t about you going behind my back and cheating. This is you accepting what needs to be done. Is it David you object to? Would you perhaps prefer Christopher?”
    “No. If I had to choose, I’d choose David. But I don’t want to choose. I just want you.”
    “And I’m not enough,” said Auric sadly and he walked away.
    It hadn’t occurred to me to look at this more from his point of view; after all, the world revolved around me. But looking at him stiffly going through the motions of making us coffee and breakfast, I realized that this had to be hard for him to. But dammit, I didn’t want to fuck anyone else. I had old fashioned notions on fidelity and they involved one man and one woman.
    Auric said not a word to me during breakfast, but I could see his eyes watching me speculatively and it bugged me. He left to run some errands, and I did laundry. Boring, but even Satan’s daughter liked clean underwear.
    When Auric came back, he had a decisive air about him.
    “I’m going on a trip to gather some intel,” he said packing a bag while I folded socks.
    “When do we leave?” I said eager for some action and glad he’d forgotten the topic of threesomes for now.
    “You’re not going. It’s too dangerous.”
    I stopped my folding and glared at him. I hated it when he pulled the chauvinistic shit with me. “Then you shouldn’t be going either.” Auric just shot me a masculine look that seemed to say How dare you tell me what to do.
    “What?” I said “It’s okay for you to put yourself in danger but I can’t?”
    “Muriel, this is not open for discussion. I want you safe. So I’m going alone.”
    “I don’t like it,” I said my hands on my hips, a pose I’m sure many a nagging girlfriend and wife had adopted over the centuries.
    “I didn’t ask you to like it. I’m leaving as soon as your guard arrives.” Auric’s decision to leave on an information gathering trip suddenly struck me as suspicious. Given our recent fight and his paranoia over my security I couldn’t understand why he had to go.
    “Why you? Can’t someone else go?” What I didn’t say was what if I need you? I worried about having to use my magic to protect myself. Once used, I’d need to recharge, without Auric around I’d have to masturbate which while pleasant didn’t even come close to filling my energy stores up. Not to mention, we’d never been apart since we’d hooked up a month ago.
    “It’s got to be me. Anyone else can’t be trusted.” I shivered with the understanding that this mission had something to do with Azazel and… I just wouldn’t think that about that.
    He kissed me fiercely as if he wanted to brand my soul with the