Page 53 of The Good Char
“Well, Kimmy, we have good news for you.Cindy’s mom called and she is home safe and sound.”
I quickly dropped my hands from my face and began crying, leaking tears all over the counter.I was a nervous wreck.I couldn’t tell them I already knew this.My heart was racing, worrying about where this conversation would lead.It was different arguing with my parents at home than in public.D grumbled and began spraying and cleaning the area in front of me when my father extended his hand.
“So, you are the famous Dick that my daughter has been raving on and on about.”
I groaned.Did he really have to say that out loud?He was trying to embarrass me on purpose!I wasn’t raving, just making sure they understood what an amazing person he was sans the fact that he was a demon.
D glared at him for a moment before confidently shaking his hand.I blushed like my whole body was being dipped into an oil vat.They both ignored me.
“I know you and my daughter are more than employee and owner,” my dad gruffly said, trying to hide the words with a cough or two before quickly changing the subject.“This is a nice place you have here,Dick.”
“It’s Dzik,” D said nonchalantly but with a hint of firmness.I had to admit, it turned me on when he was mysterious like this.
“Well, let us get one of those dipped dogs everyone has been talking about,” my father blustered as he puffed out his chest.What was going on right now?
D nodded silently as he personally dipped and fried two—one for both my parents.I wiped my face with the back of my hands and now I wanted to cry for another reason.How did I get so lucky with a man like him?
My father turned the food in his hand and examined it while my mother, trying to bridge the weird tension in the air, dipped hers in ketchup and took the first brave bite.
“This is exquisite, Harold!”she exclaimed with the biggest smile on her face.“Hurry and take a bite.It's to die for.”
“To die for, you say?”D smirked and chuckled.
I grimaced.I still didn’t know what the secret batter was or why D would go missing once a week or so during our work week.
My dad finally took a bite and nodded his head in silence, not expressing one way or another if he liked it or not.My heart hammered inside of my chest.No matter what happens next, I wouldn’t let him come between us.I laced my fingers in D’s hand behind the counter and he gripped it firmly, calming me down.
Finally, my father cleared his throat and placed his corndog down on its paper tray.“Please, come talk a little business with me, Dick—If you have a moment.”
D invited my father to the back leaving my mother and I standing at the front of The Good Char in silence.
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DZIK
“Well, I’m going to cut right to the chase,” Kimmy’s sire continued.“This is a hell of an operation you have here.My little Kimmy means the world to me and I know she means a lot to you.”
I braced myself for whatever threat was going to come out of his mouth.Kimmy would forgive me in time if I had to speed up her sire’s demise.My phallus and I would make sure of it.
“So, how about a partnership?”
His expression, once hard, finally softened a few degrees.I didn’t trust him.Why would I want to join forces with a human?Especially one that made my female sad when mentioned.
Kimmy was the only acceptable human in my existence.She was mine.This one I owed nothing to.
“Now just take a moment and think about it,” he continued to coerce me.“We could open up several of your businesses all over, franchise it.”
I mulled over his proposition.“Hmm.”
I had never considered it.I wonder how many demons I could get to come to the human realm to work for me?I would be the boss, their master… with multiple human servants beneath me.Yes.Yes, I liked this Idea.
He extended his hand again in their human custom and I shook it.“So, there we have it.I’ll get the papers for you and we can write up the contracts.You understand contracts right?”
He was testing me the same way I was testing him.The same way I tested Kimmy on her first day.The memory made my tail mentally swish.
“Of course,” I said slowly as if he was the simple one.“Buying and selling souls.”I nodded with a chuckle.“If you’ve seen one contract, you’ve seen ’em all.”
Two seconds of silence later, he slapped his knee and barked out a laugh while walking us back to the front.He was a strange one, but I wasn’t surprised.He sired my little carrion, after all.
