Page 22 of Total Lunar Eclipse

“Oh that? I told you I was a super sleuth,” Zahra crows. “I am the freaking Astrology Detective Supreme!”

“I really fail to see how a hole in the wall makes you an adept snoop,” I reply in my most condescending voice.

Zahra seems to wilt a little under my tone and a wicked smile kicks up my lips.

“Who’s popping whose cumbubblenow?”I query childishly- I swear this woman simultaneously brings out the best and the worst in me.

“I was telling you to go fuck yourself when I said that,” she answers primly.

“So was I,” I respond darkly.

Mars cuts in before we start a war.

Or anger-fuck the hate out of our systems.

“Zahra, I’m with Saturn. What’s the hole in the wall got to do with anything?” Mars says, getting us back on track.

“I made that glorious hole!” She announces proudly. “It’s a glory hole. A hole of glory to spy through.”

She beams a proud smile.

Mars’ mouth flaps open. She’s made the argumentative fucker speechless. Impressive. Although, I too, am speechless.

“What?” Mars finally croaks out.

“Oh, for fuck’s sake, don’t ask her to elaborate anymore,” I snap. I turn to the Goddess of Sex who doesn’t know squat about it. “Zahra, a glory hole is a hole where you stick your dick through to sucked.”

She looks appalled.

“No, it most certainly isnot. It’s a glorious hole for spying!”

“Just because you say that’s what it is, doesn’t make it that way. That’s like trying to make a racist word nonracist. It will never work if it already has a meaning attached to it,” I reason logically.

Her face contorts in outrage.

“I’m not racist! I was the one who refused to call the kettle black, remember?!”

“What? What are. . .” I trail off confounded by her thought processes.

“I told you it was easier to just agree with her,”Mars snickers to me mentally.

“Obviously, that’s what I should have done. How was I to kn-”

He cuts off my mental rant,“You know she’s fucking with you, right?”

“WHAT?!”

The red asshole actually laughs out loud.

“Why would she be purposely baiting me?”

“So you purposely punish her,”he returns.

I glare at the gorgeous pink vision of nonsense in front of me. Damned woman is driving me insane. I’ve never envied Mars and his soul bond more than this moment. If I were inside her head, my life wouldn’t be nearly as confusing. Mars laughs again.

“It only gets worse once you’re there,”he says.

Of course.