They had shared just one dance after the meal, before she danced with everyone who had queued to trip the light fantastic with the acknowledged belle ...f the ball. She giggled guiltily, recalling indiscriminately kissing everyone in this swanky hotel ballroom, including a waiter and the DJ! Eve even snogged her best friend, retiring to Carol’s room after dancing, to shower and change her sweat-stained clothing. Eve smiled, remembering flinging her sopping knickers at Carol, who caught them with. Jill's smile turned into a more piercing kind of Cheshire grin, and she looked me right in the eyes. "Hey, it's me you are talking to remember? The one that you can tell anything to, and vice versa. I know you well enough to be able to see that there is more to this story. Come on, spill."I sighed. "Well, yes... I guess there is a little more," I said staring down at the floor. "But if I tell you, you have to promise that you won't think I am a terrible mother." For the next 15 minutes I. 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;. "You been up at the cabin through all of this?" he asked in a friendly manner. "I didn't see you come through." Yes, we were trapped there by the storm. It was a lot worse up at the cabin than it appears to have been here," I told him. I had known the old man who ran the fuel stop here for many years and always stopped in to talk with him when I got fuel. I always liked to have a full tank before going up to the cabin in case of trouble."We?" he asked looking around for the friends who often.