“Oh, like we’re all best friends now because we worked together on a case. You don’t care about me, not really. There’s no reason for you to help me. This is something I need to do on my own.”

“I’m coming with you,” Asmo says.

Kas kisses Asmo and smiles at him. “There’s a reason I put you in the fairy realm those years ago. Now I’m letting you take care of our witch. Be the partner you’ve always wanted to be,” Kas says. Asmo goes to open his mouth, but in an instant Kas has portaled out of the room.

“I have to go after her,” Asmo says.

“You really don’t know what she’s so afraid of?”

“You know Kas, she keeps everything a fucking secret. What a bitch! Making me care about her again to just up and leave me?” He rakes his hand through his shaggy blonde hair. “And she’s even made me like the red-head. What am I supposed to do now, Dax?”

“Maybe what Kas told you to? If anyone can probably help, it’s Blair, but she has so much to learn first.”

“Lucifer actually did it. He procreated in this realm?”

“He did, and I think the breeding program is going to be discontinued.”

“He can discontinue it all he wants, but cream pies will always be in season,” Asmo jokes, trying to hide how he’s feeling. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

“It’s all right to be upset, you know?”

“I’m not fucking upset. I’m mad. If she ever pops up again and I become a pussy-whipped dumbass again, you have permission to punch me in the face.”

“Noted.”

“Sorry about the dead girl in Blair’s house. We really forgot.”

“It’s fine, sending a wendigo out there.”

“He’ll still eat it if it isn’t fresh?”

“As long as he’s hungry enough. We should all stay here tonight though,” I say.

He nods his head and sits down on the couch next to me.

“You’re really fucking the boss’ daughter?”

“Yeah, I really am.”

Blair comes walking out of my room with a teary-eyed Stevie holding her hand.

“She really just left us?” she says to Asmo.

“Come ’er, red.”

She walks over and sits on his lap.

“I thought you two didn’t like each other?” Blair says.

“We don’t,” Stevie says, putting her head against Asmo’s chest as she lightly cries and he pets her long hair.

“I don’t know about you, but I could use some ice cream,” Blair says to me.

“That sounds perfect, little witch.”

33. Blair

Chapter 33

“Ugh! It’s not working!”

“It’s going to take some practice, babe,” Dax says.