Page 16 of All My Witches
Landon flicked his eyes to me. “This world makes no sense. What kind of mobster doesn’t do anything illegal yet calls himself amobster?”
I shrugged. “How should I know? I don’t even know what a real mobsterdoes.”
“He kills people like Jimmy Hoffa,” Clovereplied.
“Oh, well, that answers that question.” I pressed the heel of my hand to my forehead. This world was already tiresome, and figuring out the rules was daunting. “Let’s just get out of here. We’ll go find the thing and go on fromthere.”
“I thought you were going to a photo shoot,” Michaelchallenged.
“I am. You must have misheardme.”
“Oh, it happens.” Michael leaned forward and pinched my butt a second time, causing me to yelp. “I already missyou.”
Landon was unbelievably close to losing his temper. “Don’t do thatagain!”
“She’s my wife,” Michael fired back. “I can do whatever I want toher.”
“No, you can’t. Infact… .”
Marcus put a hand on Landon’s chest to keep him from throwing himself at Michael. “You’ll be playing into Aunt Tillie’s game if you do that. She expects you to pick a fight. Let’s get out of here. We’ll find the thing and take a look around. We need to explore if we’re going to figure out how to get out ofhere.”
Landon’s chest heaved as he debated the logic behind Marcus’ words. Finally he blew out a sigh. “Fine. If he does it again, though, I’m totally breaking hishand.”
“If he does it again, I’ll helpyou.”
Michael, who was doing a bang-up job of pretending he wasn’t listening, reached out with his hand, causing me to shrink back from his busy fingers, but Thistle wisely slapped itaway.
“You are the dumbest mobster ever,” Thistle said. “How did you even get thejob?”
Michael pointed at his dimples. “You wouldn’t believe what these canaccomplish.”
“Well, at least you know who youare.”
“And we need to know where we’re going,” Landon said. “Let’s get out of here. I don’t ever want to see this houseagain.”
* * *
So letme get this straight … she’s pregnant with twins, but they each have different fathers? This sort of smut shouldn’t be allowed on television. I warned you girls about doing stuff like this, right? It’s how you get a reputation … and not a good one like I have. This is demented. It’s wrong. It’s so stupid. It’s … who is he? He’s hot. I like him. This show is absolutelywonderful.
– Twila on soapethics
Five
“Idon’t like that guy.”
Landon clutched my hand so tightly as we left the mansion that I thought he might break off myfingers.
“Oh, suck it up, big guy,” Thistle chided. “We have bigger things to worry about than your testosterone-fueledego.”
Landon shot her a dark look. “Excuseme?”
Thistle refused to back down. “You heard me. You don’t seem to understand how soap operas work, and that’s a detriment to us in this world. You need to get with theprogram.”
“He pinched her butt …twice!”
“Like Bay hasn’t had her butt pinched in the real world,” Thistle argued. “You need to let it go. We have other things to worryabout.”
“Likewhat?”
