Pixie The Lion Tamer (Shifters, Inc.) (14 page)

“No it’s not!” Kai cried out. “No! We’ve never seen it before!”

“She broke into my house? That’s illegal! We can send her to jail for real!” Tears of rage streamed down Barbara’s face, leaving black gritty streaks of mascara on her cheeks.

“You know what’s really, really illegal? Mind control spells,” Anastasia snapped
,.  “Like, life sentence in prison illegal.”  She yanked the pin out of the voodoo doll’s heart.  She bowed her head over the doll and began muttering, as Ryder clutched his chest and gasped.

Ryder’s parents jumped up and ran over to him.

“Ryder?” his mother said anxiously.

“He’ll be fine,” Anastasia muttered, and resumed her incantation.

Ryder climbed to his feet, bewildered.

“Baby!
Honey! Are you all right?” Barbara bleated plaintively.

“You
bitch!
” Ryder shouted.  “Oh, my God.  I can’t believe I was going to marry you.  The way you’ve talked to my family? I hate you. I hated you from the minute I set eyes on you. Get out. Get off my family’s property and never come back!”

“Wait!” Dominick bellowed.  “Not so fast.” He glared at Barbara. “First of all, take off that engagement ring.”
That ring had clearly set his brother back a cool couple hundred thousand.  No way was she walking away with that.

“I will not!”
she clutched it to her chest. “Never! It’s mine!”

“Take it OFF!” her father yelled at her.  “Do you understand what they could do to us?”

He pounced on her and grabbed at the ring, and she punched him and clawed at him, and her uncle Kai joined in, and they all fell on the ground. Barbara bit her uncle’s hand, and he screamed and cursed, and pulled the ring off her as she clawed his arm.

“Here!” Kai jumped up and eagerly thrust the ring into Ryder’s hand. “Here’s your ring back! No harm done. Okay, we’re leaving now.”

Dominick grabbed him by the arm.

“That’s assault,” Kai snarled, his face turning ugly.

Police sirens wailed in the distance. Kai went pale. “You didn’t,” he said to Dominick.

“No, I did,” Anastasia said. “I reported your violation to the Council.
  Bad shaman.  Very bad. You used Dominick’s hair to make that voodoo doll after he went to your niece’s salon, and then when he caught your niece cheating on him, you somehow got Ryder’s hair and did the same to him.  You did it so she could marry into Ryder’s family and leach off them.  By the way, now I know why Dominick used to get so irritated by Pixie; it was because she was his fated mate, and the talisman that you made for him was fighting it every single second.”

“I swear to God,
if my parents hadn’t raised me to never hit a woman-” Ryder was so angry that he was shaking. “After all the hell you’ve put us through-”

“My parents didn’t raise
me
that way,” Pixie said, and she hauled off and decked Barbara on the jaw, sending her sprawling.

“That’s for all the pain you caused my boyfriend, and his family
, you whore!” she yelled. “Get up so I can hit you again!”

“Oh, I like her,” Dominick’s mother said to him. “
I really, really like her.”

Barbara’s father pulled her to her feet, and they scrambled off the porch.
  Everyone followed them to the front of the house.

Barbara’s family ran over to the baby blue Mercedes which Ryder had bought for her last week; it was blocked in by Pixie’s car.

“Move!
              Move!              Move!” Barbara screamed at Pixie, shaking with fury.

“Nope,” Dominick said, shaking his head.

Barbara shot Dominick a look of hatred before they quickly piled into her father’s beat up old pick up truck and roared away, with several police cars in hot pursuit.

“Man, I feel stupid,” Dominick growled.  “I actually paid that bastard to make me that talisman – to fix what
him and his niece had done to me.  What was I thinking?”

“You weren’t thinking straight,” Pixie said. “You’d been bewitched. 
My God, what a hag.  She better never cross my path again.”

“You did good, babe,” Dominick said, hugging Pixie to him. 

“I know, I am pretty incredible,” she said modestly. 

“
You holding up okay?”

“Not bad. I mean, finding out I’m fifty percent evil is pretty disturbing.”

“Nahh.  It’s what makes you sexy.” He bent down and kissed her lips.  “By the way, I’m never, never letting you go.”

“So I have my own stalker now?”

“Your very own. “ He leaned down to whisper in her ear.  “Also, as you may have noticed, my family’s house has a lot of rooms.  Rooms where we could disappear for an hour and nobody would find us.  Come, let’s go exploring.”

THE END

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