Book Three: Chapter 127

Neither of them moved. Mike pulled himself along the porch until he was face to face with the succubus, her eyes staring into the distance.

“That... was something I...” Lily was at a loss for words. Her tail and wings disappeared, but her horns remained, the tiny halo of fire above them shrinking away. “I haven’t come like that in centuries. Definitely not in my real body.”

“Yeah.” He didn’t know what to say. In that moment, the sass and anger always just an inch below the surface seemed to be gone. For a split second, she seemed at peace, and he was afraid to break the spell. They quietly laid next to each other for several minutes, Lily’s eyes slowly returning to normal and the fiery halo over her head vanished. The frost that had formed over the wooden planks melted into nothingness as the sun climbed higher into the sky.

“Listen.” Lily faced him, but her eyes looked away, focused on the sky behind him. “I’m not going to be around much, but I am going to stop in