“You sure was a pretty girl, Darby. Too bad. I’ll tell that Will boy of your’s you said ‘hi’ ” The reverend got back into his pickup and d...ove away, leaving Darby in the middle of the endless desert. The sun setting on the horizon, Darby began to stir in her sleep.“Will?” she muttered, as she then returned to her drug induced comma. Will, his cousin Maggie, and the three girls continued watching the movie in the TV room. Despite what Will had suspected, the atmosphere wasn’t as awkward as he. The point being his mother was someone that never knew his father really was. Still, she was highly devoted to him, to a practically fanatic level at times, likely the result of some sort of fiendish ability or magic, or at least its lingering effects.Delvin’s mother had been killed in a raid on the nearby town when he was 17, just a month shy of his 18th birthday, so he inherited the inn and everything associated with it, good and bad. Demon-kin, like Delvin, were usually not all that trusted;. He rode in his truck playing what had just happened over and over in his mind. He couldn’t believe what he had just done he had cheated on Peggy and yet it had felt so right. He thought about not showing up and telling the police what had happened. “No who would believe that a girl like that could overpower and rape me. They would throw me in jail with a second thought.” He thought to himself. Hank pulled in to his drive way. He thought about going in but he just couldn’t face Peggy just yet.. It wasn’t that I cared that my friend Don knew. It was that Blackie Ronin was a bastard from way back who wasn’t one bit afraid of being a blackmailer. Well hell, I was a shady bastard, too, so I knew how to handle his kind! Turning my chair towards the dust plume perhaps a mile away, I opened the secret compartment at my side. After punching in a satellite code and pushing one of seven red buttons, a miniature missile, made on the order of a military Sidewinder, erupted from beneath my.