"Why isn't he here asking forthis?"
She clasped her hands together and cleared her throat. "Because he wants to see how much I love him. If I can give this to him, he will marryme."
I sat back in the chair, studied her, and sighed. "This is insane, you know that,right?"
She shook her head vehemently. "He loves me. He does. This is just a test for me to prove myloyalty."
I let my eyes go softly out of focus as I looked at her. A soft green aura surrounded her and a thread lifted from the top of her head to the outside of my office.Shit.
"Is the man you love human,Sarah?"
Her brow knit in confusion. "Of course heis."
No. No he wasn't. Not even a littlebit.
Ihatedincubi. They were a serious pain in my ass. Probably once a year I had some besotted female in here with a weird ass sexual request. Nine times out of ten it was due to the influence of an incubus. I held up a finger. "Just amoment."
I got my cell phone out and contacted Sherry, one of the Comey sisters. She was one of the few powerful enough to break the bond of an incubus after it had gotten its hooks into someone. She answered on the secondring.
"Katie. Incubus problem?" she barked into the phone. I only called her for the magical issues I couldn'thandle.
"Yep," Isaid.
"Be right there." Sherry clicked off theline.
I wasn't sure how she did it, but all of the sisters were able to travel instantaneously. I heard her high heels clicking outside the door in less than a minute. She knocked twice in rapid succession and pushed open thedoor.
Confusion lit over Sarah's face as she turned around to see who had interrupted her session, quickly followed byfear.
Sherry Comey looked like the love child of Russell Brand and Madonna. Tattooed and dressed in enough leather to make you feel sorry for the cows, Sarah was larger than life. Power beat from her aura, taking most of the oxygen out of the room. We weren't exactly friends. I wasn't sure any of the Comey sisters had friends, but we were close. Sherry was a bit of an enforcer in the town. She beat back dark and manipulative magic wherever she found it and charged an enormous amount of money to do it. But she had a thing against incubi. She handled those for me forfree.
Sherry sat down beside Sarah, looked her over for a second and tsked. "He's had his hooks in you awhile, dearie. At least six months." She peered closer at the shrinking blonde woman. "No. Closer to a year. How long have you been datinghim?"
Sarah sat up straighter. "This is outrageous! What is this allabout?"
"An incubi. Let me guess. You started dreaming about this man before you ever met him,right?"
Sarah blinked and swallowedhard.
"Uh huh," Sherry said. "Then you thought it was fate for you to find him on that shitty app. When you met him you thought he was the most beautiful thing on the planet and you threw away all your morals and slept with him on the firstdate?"
Color dampened Sarah'scheeks.
"The sex was incredible, but he left you before you woke up in the morning. He didn't call. You chased him and he threw little morsels out for you, meeting up for sex, no real emotional involvement on his part, but saying all the rightthings?"
Tears were beginning to slip down hercheeks.
"Sherry," Iwarned.
She continued. "And now he wants to marry you provided you do this one littlething-"
"Sherry!"
She cut off her monologue and glared at me. I cleared my throat. "I think that's quite enough. Can you please explain to Sarah what happened and how we can fixit?"
Sarah turned her watery gaze to me. "So you aren't going to grant this wish?" Her lower lip wobbled. "Why not? I can't getmarried."
Sarah waved her hand, freezing Sarah into place. "It's been too long. She won't listen if we try to explain this. In fact, she'll run and this jerk will get away with it because we won't be able to find himagain."
