Three Mages and a Margarita (The Guild Codex: Spellbound, #1)

by Annette Marie

I wanted a job where no one could fire me. I wanted a paycheck that couldn’t be docked. I wanted to buy my own place where no one could kick me out. I wanted to work hard and earn a living and support myself, and I didn’t want anyone to have the power to take that away from me. In other words, stability. Seriously, was that so much to ask for?

“Strength in numbers, huh?” I murmured. Not my thing. No one on the planet was as invested in saving my butt as I was, and I didn’t like counting on someone else to be there when I needed them only to find myself alone.

“If you want pizza with pineapple on it, we’ll have to throw you out.”

“Its existence alone is an insult to all pizza.”

I didn’t want to rely on them. Experience had taught me that relying on people led to trouble, pain, and failure. Nothing sucked more than counting on someone only to have them let you down.