Alicia Jasinska

This Fatal Kiss

Cassidy Nolan

“You’re sneaking off rather early today,” Wojciech called out. “It’s not even dusk yet.”

“Am I that irresistible?” she called, her bare feet slapping the footpath. “Don’t you have better things to do than stalk me?”

His vision was blurring, which was not helpful at all when he had a literal demon in his living room.

Leśna Woda’s number one public menace.

You couldn’t let yourself forget those pretty faces hid wicked hearts.

Gisela huffed. “I didn’t realize you were so desperate for my company that you’d actually kidnap me.”

“Yes, I realized I couldn’t possibly live without you,” Kazik replied with a deadpan expression.

Gisela grinned. “So the other spirits don’t get this kind of treatment? I’m special? Did you ruin my little meet-cute at the fountain because you were jealous? You know you’re looking very handsome today. Are those new glasses?”

Some days, Gisela thought Kazik wasn’t as terrible as everybody said. Sure, he took his tole as Leśna Woda’s self-imposed protector far too seriously, but that was why it was so much fun to push his buttons. She couldn’t resist playing with that overly righteous fire, testing to see how far she could take things before he snapped and tried to douse her with holy water.

There was no way an insatiable, troublemaking spirit like Gisela was just going to sit back and let herself be captured. She was a flirtatious force of chaos. You couldn’t leave her alone for a second. How could a single girl be so positively infuriating?

“Ow, ow, ow! Let go of me!” Gisela drove an elbow backward, trying to buck him off. She twisted and grabbed a fistful of his hair.

Kazik grabbed a fistful of hers and rolled them over, pinning her beneath him and not in a fun, sexy way. His knee pressed into her stomach. “Do you want to die?” He panted.

“I’m already dead!” Gisela said in a singsong.

“Always so hostile. Would you believe me if I said I missed you?”

 doing here?” Gisela peered curiously at Kazik’s little pile of grave dirt.

They depended on her. Her father had said so. Repeatedly. 

I’m so busy with my work, Gisela. If you don’t look after Hugo, who will?

She bit her lip. “I have to go home. My little brother—“

“Is not your responsibility. You’re not his mother. You have a father.”

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