The Minotaur’s Valentine (PINE RIDGE UNIVERSE) by S.C. Principale EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: S.C. Principale
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Milo
The Night Market is exactly what it says it is. It’s a market that’s only
open at night. It looks like one of those flea markets or farmers’
markets that are set up in the civic center parking lot or a school gym
during winter break. In the case of the Pine Ridge Night Market, there are
about two dozen small stalls set up in the empty lot behind the Pine Loft
Coffee Shop. We sell everything from homemade candy and potpourri to
weapons for the discerning demon hunter and pre-made potions for nervous
spellcasters.
Obviously, you have to know where to look. (And when to look. We’re
not open every night.)
And humans… humans aren’t excluded, especially not humans who’ve
lived in Pine Ridge for a long time, but most won’t see the Night Market the
way I do.
I don’t have specially enhanced vision or anything. No superpowers.
I’m just your average, twenty-something minotaur. I put on my jeans one
hoof at a time, just like everyone else.
“Milo. Can you fix my watch fob?”
“What’s the trouble, Mr. Minegold? Ooh, hey, J.J.” I take the watch
from the tall, thin, distinguished man wrapped in a black frock coat and
bright tartan muffler. His adopted grandson, J.J., is strapped to his hip in
one of those stretchy baby-sling contraptions. I look around for something
to give the kid, something that won’t kill him. I reach under the stall into
my big red tackle box and take out several inches of silver chain. “Here you
go, little man. Oh!” I draw back at the last second. “It’s silver. Can he touch
it?”
“Silver doesn’t harm Jesse Jakob.” Mr. Minegold savors the name,
letting his accent become more pronounced as he caresses the curly little
head. “Jesse Jakob, you naughty mite! You have tossed off your wooly hat.
Your mama and papa won’t like that. I must retrace my steps, Milo. I
confess I was lingering too long at the fudge stand!”
“I can understand that, Mr. Minegold! I’ll look at the watch fob, and
you find J.J.’s hat.” I wave them off. J.J. waggles his chubby fist, which is
now curled around the silver chain.
Dang. Kids are cute. Even human kids. I know J.J. isn’t fully human,
but he looks human. His dad, Jesse, is a vamp (so is Mr. Minegold), and his
mom is… something demon-y? I don’t know the details, but she is gorgeous.
My brother, Bill, would tease me if he were still living in town. He’d
call me out on my interest in interspecies couples. As soon as Bill turned
twenty, he moved back to the family homestead in Greece.
He has a
beautiful wife and two kids now. He’d also tell me that I’m running out of
time to find a girl. I’m almost thirty. Minotaur women like their bulls
young, that’s what he’d say.
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