again. Even if the older woman did work for the Creation side, she scared the hell out of Eliana.
Chapter Eight
The cash register chimed as Eliana rang up the giant pot of pumpkin-orange mums and helped her customer put it back into her basket. A festive atmosphere filled the garden center, and she enjoyed being outside in the warm weather. People were glad to be off work, and they browsed for objects to make their homes beautiful. The store did a quick business in seasonal religious items, and there were many harvest celebrations coming up.
It was so pretty, so normal that she could almost pretend the morning never happened.
Almost.
As if her encounter with a demon hadn’t been bad enough, it seemed like the head cashier, Linda, had it out for her. Linda had handed Eliana the keys to the outdoor register as soon as she arrived for her 4 p.m. shift after berating Eliana for being five minutes late. After she was done yelling at Eliana and being a complete bitch, Linda had told her to make sure the delivery drivers drove their loads to the back and to sign for the deliveries. Eager to get away from Linda, she said she would and hurried outside.
As she walked away, Eliana could hear Linda saying something in a nasty tone of voice about her to one of the other cashiers.
She didn't know what Linda's problem was, but for fucking sure she didn’t need the other woman’s petty drama. For a forty-something woman in a pumpkin sweater, she sure acted like a bitchy teenager. Eliana didn't know what she had done to get on Linda's bad side, but she was getting pretty fed up with her crappy attitude.
As if she didn't have enough to deal with at the moment. She only had to rethink her views on reality and the cosmic order of the universe, no big deal. After her little run-in with the demon dog earlier today, she’d hit the Internet in an effort to find out everything she could on demons and how to defeat them. What she’d found was actually fascinating. There were thousands of different kinds of demons from all parts of the world. For every demon, there was a different way to fight against them. A lot of the magic required reciting protection spells in Latin. So basically she had to learn hundreds of different religions, demons, and how to banish them along with amassing an arsenal in charms and weapons.
She was so screwed.
She’d called Aiden as soon as she got home, but all she got was his voice mail. She’d left him a message to call her as soon as possible, and that she would be working at the store tonight. Chrissy had been concerned when she saw Eliana all covered in mud, but seemed to buy her excuse of being stuck on the trails in a rainstorm. It had killed Eliana not to confide in her friend, she was afraid that some demon would come after Chrissy because of her association with Eliana, but she couldn’t break her promise. For all she knew the gods would smite her and her friend for revealing any information about the Chosen. After the events of earlier today nothing seemed out of the realm of possibility anymore so she was going to play it as safe as possible.
As if she didn’t have enough to think about at the moment, her overly hormonal body wanted to only think about Aiden and all the dirty things she wanted to do with him. It didn’t help that the book he’d lent her smelled like him. She found herself sniffing the leather binding of the book without even thinking about it. It must have come from his personal library because it smelled like his cologne.
After taking a quick look around to make sure there weren’t any customers that needed help, she pulled the book out of the alcove beneath her register and gave it a quick sniff. With a sigh, she flipped open the small book and stared at the first two pages. She examined the familiar map of the world, but with odd country divisions and names. Places like Gaul and Babylon were shown, along with the gods and goddesses of the region. There
Chapter Eight
The cash register chimed as Eliana rang up the giant pot of pumpkin-orange mums and helped her customer put it back into her basket. A festive atmosphere filled the garden center, and she enjoyed being outside in the warm weather. People were glad to be off work, and they browsed for objects to make their homes beautiful. The store did a quick business in seasonal religious items, and there were many harvest celebrations coming up.
It was so pretty, so normal that she could almost pretend the morning never happened.
Almost.
As if her encounter with a demon hadn’t been bad enough, it seemed like the head cashier, Linda, had it out for her. Linda had handed Eliana the keys to the outdoor register as soon as she arrived for her 4 p.m. shift after berating Eliana for being five minutes late. After she was done yelling at Eliana and being a complete bitch, Linda had told her to make sure the delivery drivers drove their loads to the back and to sign for the deliveries. Eager to get away from Linda, she said she would and hurried outside.
As she walked away, Eliana could hear Linda saying something in a nasty tone of voice about her to one of the other cashiers.
She didn't know what Linda's problem was, but for fucking sure she didn’t need the other woman’s petty drama. For a forty-something woman in a pumpkin sweater, she sure acted like a bitchy teenager. Eliana didn't know what she had done to get on Linda's bad side, but she was getting pretty fed up with her crappy attitude.
As if she didn't have enough to deal with at the moment. She only had to rethink her views on reality and the cosmic order of the universe, no big deal. After her little run-in with the demon dog earlier today, she’d hit the Internet in an effort to find out everything she could on demons and how to defeat them. What she’d found was actually fascinating. There were thousands of different kinds of demons from all parts of the world. For every demon, there was a different way to fight against them. A lot of the magic required reciting protection spells in Latin. So basically she had to learn hundreds of different religions, demons, and how to banish them along with amassing an arsenal in charms and weapons.
She was so screwed.
She’d called Aiden as soon as she got home, but all she got was his voice mail. She’d left him a message to call her as soon as possible, and that she would be working at the store tonight. Chrissy had been concerned when she saw Eliana all covered in mud, but seemed to buy her excuse of being stuck on the trails in a rainstorm. It had killed Eliana not to confide in her friend, she was afraid that some demon would come after Chrissy because of her association with Eliana, but she couldn’t break her promise. For all she knew the gods would smite her and her friend for revealing any information about the Chosen. After the events of earlier today nothing seemed out of the realm of possibility anymore so she was going to play it as safe as possible.
As if she didn’t have enough to think about at the moment, her overly hormonal body wanted to only think about Aiden and all the dirty things she wanted to do with him. It didn’t help that the book he’d lent her smelled like him. She found herself sniffing the leather binding of the book without even thinking about it. It must have come from his personal library because it smelled like his cologne.
After taking a quick look around to make sure there weren’t any customers that needed help, she pulled the book out of the alcove beneath her register and gave it a quick sniff. With a sigh, she flipped open the small book and stared at the first two pages. She examined the familiar map of the world, but with odd country divisions and names. Places like Gaul and Babylon were shown, along with the gods and goddesses of the region. There
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