Welcome to Fae Cafe (High Court of the Coffee Bean, #1)

by Jennifer Kropf

“Well, when you’re ready to talk, my door is always open, my cookies are always warm, and my tea kettle is always hot.”

“It was a good kiss, too. It should have painted the heavens with gold and made the air smell of gingerberries,” Cress added with a mutter. He crumpled forward and rested his forehead against the cold tabletop. Perhaps a nap was in order.

Thirty minutes later, three assassins sat around the café sipping warm pumpkin spice lattes and flipping the pages of their novels quietly.

“Why does everything of the sinister and magical sort always happen in a library?” he muttered to himself.

“Here’s our deal: You’ll stay until Christmas, and you’ll take all the kisses you want from me in that time,” she offered with a weird, bashful grin. “I don’t accept,” he said right away again, and Kate turned to find him glaring. “Why?” “Because you’d be driven to your death if I had to do that to you. You’d never catch your breath if I took all the kisses I wanted. I don’t think I’d ever want to stop. It’s a dangerous bargain, and you should know better, Kate Kole. Never make a bargain with a fairy.”

“Welcome to Fae Café.”

“Yes.” He mumbled it. “But I curse the day I met you, Kate Kole.” That brought a smile to her face. “How sweet.”