Repossessed by Shawntelle Madison

The money she offered was nice and all, but was he wasting his time playing watch dog with her when he could be out making some good money? Enough to help his aunt and uncle?
    A chortle rumbled from the satchel on his hip. His behavior wasn’t missed by Harabeuji either. “Where are we going in such a hurry, Doryeonim ?”
    Rob stopped, his shoes scuffing against the sidewalk. It’d be so easy to brush her off. He was certain he could forget about her, but she’d warned him about that piece of shit warlock Dagger. The least he could do was keep her safe since she didn’t deserve to be a target. With a decision made he moved again.
    He’d keep her safe then focus on what was most important: wrapping things up with his relatives and getting back to where he belonged.

    Tessa was supposed to have gotten a reprieve that afternoon. Or at least an opportunity to hide until all the bumps had faded.
    Rob had different plans, though. He waited at her doorstep with a cheesy grin on his face. “I’m scared to think of what other means you’d use to get into Limbo, so I showed up.”
    Gee, thanks?
    They spent the afternoon at her place until the daylight faded into the night. As they left her place, she’d asked him a few times what they needed to do, but he was as helpful as a tome with vanishing ink. She’d have better luck figuring things out on her own. Once they reached their destination, she really thought she’d seen it all.
    Tessa stared at the factory across the street and scratched her forehead. “You’re kidding me, right? We’re breaking into a factory?”
    Rob frowned and pulled an usual hat from his satchel. She didn’t have much time to check out the black, pointy hat. By the time he placed it on his head, it slowly transformed into a Mets baseball cap. “I hate when you say that.”
    “What did you put on?”
    “A Korean troll’s hat called a gamtu . C’mon.”
    She’d never heard of such a thing. Hopefully it kept them out of trouble.
    After tonight, she could say to her friends she’d illegally entered homes, a meat-packing plant, and now a cheese-packaging facility. If Rob told her they needed to repo a magic staff from a peg-legged witch in a strip club, she would’ve believed him at this point.
    The factory hummed from the machines constantly moving packages down conveyor belts. Large machinery chirped as cheese products flipped into plastic and fell into boxes. A light skeleton crew moved about as they slinked around in the shadows. She followed Rob’s lead, darting between spaces and hiding behind boxes as they entered the main manufacturing floor.
    “Our buddy, Dagger, has been a busy boy,” he whispered in her ear. “He’s trying to push around property instead of holding onto it. So we need to repossess an amulet from Jasper. He keeps our target in the office space safe. There is a jump point directly to the president’s office from his home, but it’s well-guarded.”
    “I think you’re telling me I should be grateful we’re not using the jump point to leap directly into the action.”
    He cocked a small grin. “About time you caught on.”
    Rob crept along the main manufacturing floor toward the stairwell to the second floor office space.
    She grabbed his arm. “Are there any security cameras around here?”
    “Thanks to my hat we should be good. If you stay close enough to me, you’ll be cloaked. I’d advise you not to head to the work line to test out the quality of the cheese.”
    She pursed her lips and followed him up the staircase. After the staircase door shut behind them, the loud noises of the main floor quieted. As they ascended the stairs to the second level, she heard a door creak open above. Rob froze, his index finger moving to his mouth. Footsteps plodded down the steps. She held her breath, hoping a pissed off warlock hadn’t detected their presence. As the echoes of the footsteps approached, she couldn’t sense any magic. Nonetheless, he inched closer to