“I know a lot of stuff,” Tabitha told Felix.
“What do you want with the witch?”
“Do you know her?”
He was silent for a moment. She wondered if he was going to lie to her, or if his eyes were going to do that weird flashing thing again. That had been cool: cool and sexy. She’d liked it a lot, and she wasn’t going to complain if he did it again.
“Perhaps,” he finally said.
“I heard she has a lot of friends. Are you friends?”
“No.”
“She’s got a monster,” Tabitha said casually, looking around. Her eyes roamed for any clue that the witch had something watching this beach. She assumed it was safe. She had to. After all, this hunk of man meat was standing on the beach. If she were Ursula, she wouldn’t be letting this guy out of her sight. Not for a second.
Oh, Felix was hot, all right, but he was probably deadly, too. Tabitha couldn’t quite pinpoint why she suspected that. She just had the feeling that this was the kind of guy who didn’t mess around. He was the kind of guy who consistently kept his promises, and he was the type of predator who didn’t strike his prey until he was certain he could claim it without an issue.
Was she going to be his prey?
Was he going to go after her?
She wasn’t sure.
Felix didn’t blink when she mentioned the monster, though.
Why hadn’t he blinked?
“A monster?” Felix raised an eyebrow, but it was too late, and his reaction was too telling.
“You already knew,” she said, accusing.
“There’s no monster.”
“There is.”
She was certain. There was no doubt that Ursula kept a monster in her employ. From what she had gathered, it was a dragon of some sort. She’d heard all about it, and she’d read as much as she could. Besides, she knew more than anyone else what kind of person Ursula was.
Tabitha was the only one who had survived the slaughter of the mages.
Ursula had done her part to ensure no more mages survived. She’d done whatever it took to ensure that the mages had nothing left, including their lives, but she hadn’t been good enough. Tabitha was a sneaky bitch, and she was cunning.
Now she was going to make Ursula pay.
“I’m quite certain that there is not.”
Felix seemed neither scared nor upset about this.
“Whatever,” Tabitha said. She looked back at the little boat and started walking toward it. Her bare feet sank into the sand as she walked, but she didn’t care. She needed to pull the boat up a bit more, so it didn’t blow away. Not that being stuck on a deserted island with someone like Felix would be a hardship, she reasoned, but she needed to keep her options open.
Unless she could find a way to recharge her magic, and soon, she was going to be fighting Ursula by hand, and that wasn’t going to go very well for her.
“What are you doing?”
“Pulling the boat up.”
“Let me help.”
“I’m fine.”