Page 68 of Anarchy
“They drank something on my deskwithout a coaster.There are rings now. This desk is an antique. It belonged to the first librarian that ran this place after it was completed. If they ruined the fucking desk, what did they do to the books?” I shrieked.
Reyson peered over my shoulder and frowned. Was he seeing this shit? Was he willing to make someone explode in a cloud of pink glitter over it? Because I certainly didn’t know how to dispose of a body without getting caught.
Reyson waved his hand, and there was suddenly an ornate pot covering the rings on my desk with a beautiful, healthy Queen of the Night planted in it. The flowers only bloomed at night for a few hours, but they had a ton of medicinal purposes in potions and salves. Unfortunately, the flowers and plants were super expensive in witch markets, and most people didn’t want to deal with a cactus you had to babysit to get the flowers.
Many people preferred to buy the potion or salve already made because they were lazy, but I’d always loved my garden witch classes. Ravyn leaned over my desk.
“Now, you can’t even see the damage to your desk. The leaves on these would make pretty potent curses if you wanted revenge on your substitute.”
“They sent a fucking degenerate in my library! If they just threw these books on the cart and ignored all the coasters on my desk because you’re all here with me now, then theydefinitelylooked at porn on my work computer. I’ll bet they didn’t even clear it when they were done. They are probably into weird shit like lesbians with men in T-Rex costumes.”
“I still can’t believe you felt the need to send that to me when you found it,” Ravyn groaned.
“You’re not innocent in this either, Ravyn. You made me watch it too,” Killian said.
“I demand to see this video,” Balthazar said. “And hello! Computer genius here. I can do an exorcism on your laptop like it’s never seen porn during work hours. Unfortunately, I can’t fix sticky keyboards. You might want to burn it if they are a work jerker.”
They’d better not have! Not only was it gross, but just because youthoughtno one was here watching you didn’t mean there wasn’t. The spirits here lived with the Puritans, but some of them were perverts. I had to reinforce the wards in my apartment when one of them haunted my bathroom and only appeared when I was naked.
I heard the bell from the front door as it opened. It was late, and the library was closed. The last time I heard that bell, Dorian Gray tossed a canister of gas in my library and kidnapped me. I called magic to my fingertips and sprinted to the lobby.
We ended up scaring the shit out of some kid, who jumped so hard, he fell flat on his ass. He was a warlock, and his hands were empty.
“What the shit are you doing in my library?” I demanded.
“Oh, thank Lilith, you’re back. I just came back because I left my phone charger. My mom is on the board here, and she was so mad at me when I got a C on my Arcane Magic exam at the academy. So she pulled some strings, and if I watched the library while you were gone, I’d get extra credit on my exam that would bump me up to a B.
“I didn’twantto. I have no idea what I’m doing. I don’t even have a library card here. My first time in this library was when I showed up to work. I don’t know whereanythingis, and people got mean about it. I begged her to take over for me, but a C just isn’t good enough when you have my last name.”
“You knew where the coasters were on my desk, but you still didn’t use them.”
“What? I’m sorry! No one told me shit about what I was supposed to do. They said to just sit at the desk and let people do their thing. No one told me everyone was going to want to bleed on the desk. I’m only a freshman. We haven’t even gotten to blood magic yet at the academy!”
“Get your charger and go home. I’ll take it from here.”
I wasn’t even mad at the kid, even though he was old enough to know how to use a coaster. I was, however, really mad at his mother for abusing her position on the library board to put her eighteen-year-old son in my job while I was kidnapped.
She wouldn’t have been able to do a good bit of my job either, but she knew the rules here and how things were run. Fuck, she’d at least been around blood magic and didn’t get squeamish about the system here. If I was going to get revenge for this, it wouldn’t be against some kid who just had his magic awakened and was in over his head.
But I’d totally drop a little hex on his mom because she should have known better.
He was super nervous as he came back with his phone charged.
“Am I in trouble?” he squeaked.
“That depends. Were you looking at porn on my work computer?”
I think I just murdered that kid from sheer embarrassment. Even his hair was blushing.
“I didn’t! My family arranged a marriage with a prominent witch, and we are both saving ourselves until marriage. I don’t look at porn!”
Oh, man. That was quite a mouthful. This kid waswaytoo innocent for his own good, and I could say without fibbing that his fiancé was definitely enjoying her academy experience and getting plenty of dick.
“Dude, I’m going to do you a favor and give you some advice, even though you damaged my desk. Don’t deny yourselfanythingbecause you think she is. Witches and warlocks are sexual creatures. Most of us have moved into the modern world and stopped arranging marriages, but there are a few holdouts.
“You probably don’t even want to marry her and are doing it because your parents want you to. I can guarantee she feels exactly the same. Watch all the porn. Find out how sex works. Experiment with your classmates. If you do go through with marrying her, she’ll appreciate having a husband who knows how to please her. Now, go forth and fornicate, young Jedi.”
I mortified that kid, and he scurried out of my library. So now, I was left with the mess he left behind. Felix wrapped his arms around my waist and hugged me.
