Page 97 of The Time Of Queens

“What? She’s in, isn’t she?” I looked at Layla’s awkward, bent position on the floor and agreed.

“Good point, now let’s stuff her in the trunk before anyone walks around the corner and decides to call the cops.” Something we did after first all filing in the small room and closing the door. Then we lifted her up, and folded her body in a purely unnatural way before stuffing her the rest of the way inside.

“Hey, Sophia, bringing back any memories?” Pip teased, winking at me and making Sophia grit her teeth.

“Just shut the damn lid and secure it,” she snapped back.

“Okie dokie, leave it to me, see you later, bitch face,” Pip said, slamming the door and conjuring up a fancy lock that looked magical.

“Huh, I didn’t know you could do that?” I questioned, making her stand and dust off her ruffled chest, reminding me of some exotic bird puffing out its feathers.

“Lucky for some, I did have a padlock spell in my purse,” she replied, making me ask,

“Really?”

“Nooo, of course not, why would I need to bring one of those to a wedding?” she answered, making me shake my head in confusion.

“For reasons like that,” I said, pointing a finger down at the body we had just stuffed in a trunk.

“Good point… but alas no, that was just my natural mojo,” she stated in her proud peacock moment. One that didn’t last as we scrambled out the supply closet just as we heard Amelia clearing her throat. Which meant she found us all standing up straight and leaning against the closet door, now trying to act natural.

“Well at least I don’t have to worry about any fingers this time,”Pip muttered, which resulted in Sophia elbowing her in the side, shushing her.

“Do I want to know on my wedding day?” Amelia asked in a sceptical tone.

“Nope,” I said, followed by Sophia adding,

“Probably not.” And as for Pip, she went with honesty…

“I would say yes, but I will get elbowed again…so no.”

“Okay,so she’s cut the cake, had her first dance, danced with her dad, thrown the bouquet, and made out with her husband about fifteen thousand times. Trust me, we don’t have long to move that body before they make it back to the hotel,” Sophiasaid as the night wore on, and she was right, if we were going to act, then it needed to be before all the guests started leaving, my daughter included.

Because I was still hoping to see the night’s end without anyone knowing what had happened. Which is why we snuck out, after telling our own husbands we would be back as we were going to freshen up. Because clearly, we were girls and girls did that type of shit together.

Thankfully, we had already disappeared the once, after I had made the excuse of thinking it might be my time of the month and needing girly supplies back at the hotel. Of course, it would end up being a ‘false alarm’ so I could still ravish my husband once the night was over. But before that could happen, we soon found we had another problem on our hands.

Just as dessert was being served, we had made our way back to the hotel, or more specifically the supply closet.

“Gods, please let her still be in there,” I said, so ready to kill this bitch already… as well, I was now half Demon.

“Of course, she will be, ain’t no one getting past my magic,” Pip replied, yet despite this, we each held our breaths, even Pip, making me raise a brow at her.

“What? I need the added oxygen,” she exclaimed.

“Sure, sure,” Sophia commented wryly, before opening the door. The collective sigh of relief left each of us, making me look once more to Pip, who in sight of the untouched locked trunk, said,

“See, I told you it would hold.” Then she snapped her fingers, releasing the lock.

“Now it’s time to wake up this… oh no,” Pip said, as I was the first to find anything in this closet to kill her with. Meaning when I did turn around, I did so with a plunger in my hand.

“Really? What are you going to do with that, clear out her colon?” Sophia asked mockingly. I was just about to reply when Pip beat me to it and said,

“Even if you were, there would be no point as she’s flush out of luck.”

I frowned.

“Why? And eww, by the way,” I added when Sophia gave me another ironic look.

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