Manticore Madness: A Paranormal Monster Romance (Possessive Monsters Book 5) by Maggie Mayhem

Author:Maggie Mayhem [Mayhem, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Eva

Nobody ever warned me how difficult it would be to focus on my work with an incubus right outside our workplace window. Prax had insisted on keeping me within view, so he’d parked his perfectly sculpted ass on the bench directly outside in the hall. And to think he’d been the one with the gall to claim Mateo would draw too much attention!

If he had the ability to turn transparent or take on any form he wanted to blend in, then why didn’t he? I suspect it was because he was getting a lot of attention from all the women at my workplace, and he thrived on it. It didn’t matter whether the attention was negative or positive; as long as he was getting a ton of women riled up, Prax loved it.

He’d taken one look at me this morning and immediately looked away again, as if he realized something had happened between me and Mateo and I was no longer on the market. Was it that obvious? Did I have a “just screwed and happy about it” look to me? Or had Mateo warned him off behind my back? Whatever it was, Prax was getting his fill of female attention, considering my office consisted mostly of women.

I could see the two younger interns taking turns strutting right by him with their lipstick freshly reapplied and their skirts hiked higher than was appropriate, trying to catch his eye. To their credit, the photocopier was right there. So technically they were still working.

The rest of my coworkers only took furtive glances as they admired the perfect masculine specimen on display. It was winter, and despite the cold, Prax was showing a lot of tanned skin.

At least he wasn’t topless, like he’d been this morning when he’d come to meet me at Mateo’s place. I’d insisted he conjure some clothes so he could fit in better, warning him that some Karen might overreact and call the cops on him if they thought he was naked, even though he was most definitely covered in all the parts that really counted.

In the end, he’d settled on a pair of leather pants and a silk shirt, open at the front. It wasn’t much better at not drawing attention, but at least it was clothes. He also looked completely human.

Oh, and I’d also had a little talk with him about toning down the rapey vibes.

“Do you women not like assertive males anymore?” he’d asked.

“If that’s your idea of ‘assertiveness’, I don’t think most women ever liked it,” I’d replied honestly.

“No one ever complained before. But I appreciate that this is a different time; I’ll dial it back.”

I’d worried at the time about what he’d meant by that. But by this point I was more worried about one of my co-workers jumping him than the other way around.

The person who was the unhappiest about Prax’s presence was…no surprise…none other than Tamara. She’d grumbled loudly several times already and had already questioned the two interns if they really needed to use the photocopier that much, implying that they were only there for the view.

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