Bound (A Faery Story 1)

for me. I think it would be funny. Now, shut up and listen. I think

you’ll find this very interesting.” She handed the computer to him.

Dante took the tablet. “This is an iPad. I think it’s nice that you

have one. Can I go to bed now?”

Meg saw her mistake. “Let me turn it on.” She flipped a switch

and the menu came up. The menu in this case was a holographic

female. As she’d been programmed by Dante, she was gorgeous and

wore very little clothing.

“How may I help you, Dante love?” She also had a very sexy

voice.

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“Holy shit,” Human Dante swore. “Where the hell did you get

this?”

Meg smiled. Now she had him.

* * * *

Dante Dellacourt shoved a hand through his red-gold hair. It was

long, hanging past his earlobes. Normally it didn’t bother him, but he

was pretty sure it made him look grungy in front of the pretty woman

sitting in his store. Not that perfectly combed hair would have helped.

He smoothed his hands over his slightly wrinkled Lex Luthor for

President T-shirt. Why couldn’t he have done some laundry? And

why did it matter? The chick hadn’t come to try to date him.

He’d been listening to the craziest story he’d ever heard for the

last hour and a half. The redhead was hot, but completely insane.

She thought vampires were real. She also believed in faeries and

dem

ons and hags, though Dante was getting that this wasn’t the kind

of hag who dressed up nice to hang around gay bars. She was sure

she’d been to another plane of existence. According to her, there were