Chapter 150

They nodded and got up to leave the bar.

“Oh,” Alex said before they could get too far from their stools, “and if you see an old friend in there, tell her to keep to the back of the couch if she can. She’s been shedding something awful getting in her winter coat.”

Nathan brightened and saw an answering smile on Sasha’s face. They had almost forgotten about the resident mascot.

They made their way through to the lounge, passing by the few seals without so much as a glance their way, and found the room not only vacant but dark. Nathan remembered where the light was and groped along the wall to flick it on. There were no windows in the room so it got pretty dark even in daylight.

The second the light filled the room, Nathan heard a telling ‘prrrp’ sound from the couch. Sasha was already reaching over the back of it by the time Nathan looked that way, and a second later the incubus had a large, fluffy grey tabby cat in his arms.