Page 61 of Midnight in the Garden of Okay and Meh

Oh, dear. I think ... yes, I think it’s time to bring Terrin in. If Desi is going to summon her, all hell is going to break out.

ME

It’s when you say things like that I wonder about whether you should have been running Abaddon rather than the Court.

SALLY

You know me so well. Did they declare war?

ME

Yup.

SALLY

I assumed that’s the way it was heading. Very well. Lines have been drawn. I will inform Terrin.

ME

What about the Court? That’s who Desi said betrayed him.

SALLY

And who was Sovereign for the last two hundred years of his incarceration?

ME

Crapbeans.

SALLY

Exactly. Ah well. A demigod and his pissed-off warrior of a mate after my head will add a little spice to my life. That is, so long as they don’t find your half sister. If they do that, all bets are off.

ME

My sister is a half sister? Is she Parisi’s kid, or Desi’s?

ME

Sally?

ME

Great. Not only is there a killer thane roaming around the mortal world, now my pissed-off demigod father with a chip on his shoulder, and scary-as-Abaddon mom with a deep love of lopping off beings’ heads, are starting a war they can’t win.

SALLY

Some days, it’s just not worth chewing the leather straps off the straitjacket, is it?

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