Chapter 30 - To Trick the Devil

Country music bounced off the walls of Thirst as Black Hollow residents sat around celebrating the end of another week. Jackson slid around Piper as he set a rum and Coke in front of Arden McCarthy and moved to fix the leprechaun’s girlfriend, Kerry Underwood, a Midori Sour.

“When am I getting my beer?” Basgi, the brownie from the Daydreamer Inn, pounded on the top of the bar from where he stood on his barstool. Jackson glanced down the bar at the crotchety brownie, glad that of all the faeries in Black Hollow, he had ignored the brownie’s height issues. “How much longer do I have to wait?”

Jackson turned to Piper and sighed. “Can you take care of the little pipsqueak? I’ve had enough of his yelping for one night.” He noticed a wisp of her red hair sticking away from her head and fought the urge to reach out and tuck it behind her ear, knowing how she liked to remain prim in public.