Post by StoryGirl83 on Apr 5, 2011 1:01:18 GMT -5
Chapter Eight – While You Were Sleeping
and three demons
Steve Kessler shut the door to his daughter’s bedroom. Devia had fallen asleep at her desk working on her homework. He wasn’t sure what had so exhausted her, but he had slipped off her shoes and slipped her otherwise fully dressed into her bed. Hopefully when she woke she would be rested enough to finish up.
He walked silently down the hall. When he reached the end he was surprised to see three demons in suits. “Don’t tell me you already screwed this up.”
“The Grimlock girl was at the restaurant,” one of the demons informed him.
Steve groaned. He knew what that meant. “You didn’t do anything to rouse her suspicion did you?”
“I don’t believe so,” the same demon conceded, “but the rumor is she doesn’t need action to judge intentions.”
“And if you don’t do anything to prove her suspicion in her presence, she will give up,” Steve informed them. “She was here with my niece about a month ago and of course she is suspicious of me, but she has nothing specific. She has no real reason to believe anything. Stay out of her way if you can and if you can’t ignore her. Act as if you have nothing to hide and she’ll believe it soon enough. What of your mission?”
“The brothers are separated right now,” a second demon informed him. “One of them is with your niece and her friends though.”
“And the other brother?”
“He’s with one of his cupid cousins,” the third demon announced.
Steve sighed. “Then, that’s the one you need to deal with first. Don’t be seen unless you intend to engage them in combat.”
The three demons looked at each other. They nodded slowly and one by one they shimmed away.