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February 22 - February 24, 2024
“I’ve been thinking,” Shayne said. “How horrifying.”
Shayne was a basket case of laughter on the floor behind the counter. “How?!” he wailed. “How could you let it happen again?! How—” He slapped a hand over his eyes when tears gushed out. “How did you manage to get enchanted twice?!” “Stop. Laughing. Or I’ll Cut. Out. Your. Tongue.”
It was three days before she saw him again. Kate returned to the café the following morning to find out that Shayne had locked Cress in her upstairs closet. “It’s for his own good. He would kill me later for letting him humiliate himself by tearing apart the city to get to you at all hours.
She dried her hands on a towel and went to meet him, but he grabbed her wet hands around the towel. “I want to make you laugh, Human. Hearing your laugh is my highest obsession. And your smile, too. And for some faeborn-cursed reason, I’m fascinated by your lack of evil—” “Aaaaaand back into the closet you go,” Shayne said, yanking Cress back by his shoulder. “I guess it’s not worn off yet.”
“Hmm.” Cress’s mouth twisted to the side. He set his mug down, walked around the counter, and turned her seat to face him. “I want you to be mine. That’s how I want the story to end,” he said. “With us living a simple life, and you being happy.” He glanced at her neck tattoo when she swallowed.
I expect you all to miss me terribly.”
Dranian arrived at the party with no shirt or hideous sweater. Nothing but garland “suspenders” covered his broad assassins’ chest.
“I’ll deliver you to the human medical building,” Cress told Lily. “But make no mistake, Lily Baker, if you ever trick a fairy into eating a raisin cookie again, the sky deities will show no mercy. I hope you realize that what happened here today was punishment for that wretched cookie I ate this morning.”
Cress looked back one last time at the Four Corners of Ever when he reached the arch. Then he went back to where he belonged.
The café kitchen got warm in the spring. Shayne set up fans on the counter by the oven, but he seemed more interested in posing in front of them with his hair blowing and taking selfies than actually working.
