Hell's Belles. Jackie Kessler
roll on the black cinders and rocks until I hefted him up by his armpits. It took us nearly fifteen minutes to reach the back of the line.
“Oh God…oh God…oh God…”
A smile played on my lips. “Wrong direction, sweetie.”
He stared at me, wide-eyed. His soul had taken on a distinct grayish tone, which dampened the obsidian and scarlet swirls. He was nearly petrified with fear.
So cool.
After a few moments of him trying to hyperventilate, he realized he wasn’t breathing anymore. Finally he stammered, “Can we maybe make a deal?”
“A deal?” I blinked, incredulous. “Really?”
“You get me out of here, I’ll give you whatever you want.”
I threw back my head and laughed. Damn, it had been a long, long time since I’d had a charge so completely clueless. After I got my guffaws under control, I said, “Sweetie, what do you think landed you here in the first place?”
He paled to a sickly ashen color. “What do you mean?”
“At one point, you made a deal with one of my associates. And here you are, fulfilling your end.”
“But…No, I never did that! I never signed anything!”
I sighed. “Why do mortals always think that you have to sign something to make it binding? You were a lawyer. Haven’t you heard of a verbal agreement?”
“But—”
“Look,” I said, “if you seriously think there’s been a mistake, take it up with your Case Worker.”
He swallowed. “Case Worker?”
“It’ll add to the paperwork, but if you’re sure there’s been an error, we’ll have to backtrack.”
Weakly, he repeated, “Paperwork?”
I put a hand on his shoulder, enjoying the way he flinched from my talons grazing his form. “Sweetie, this is Hell. We invented paperwork.”
That was a lie, but hey, I was a demon. I was supposed to lie.
My lover’s color continued to bleed out, leaving him marbled with shots of pink. Staring down at the blackened ash by his feet, he asked, “I’m really in Hell?”
I squeezed his shoulder. “Not yet. Based on this line, we’re not getting you inside for about another two hours.”
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