Chapter 37

Glancing back once more before the doors shut behind her, she was secretly relieved to see he hadn’t moved to get back in the SUV but stayed where he had line of sight to the doors.

An hour later, Livia let out a sigh as she exited the post office for the last time, exhausted from fending off the humans. Even with the Allure locked up as tightly as she was able, they were drawn to her like moths to a flame.

What should have taken twenty minutes took four times that because of the chaos she unwillingly caused. Hell, the post office was supposed to have closed over half an hour ago, and it didn’t make her feel the slightest bit better that the employees had been happy to stay late.

“Excuse me, ma’am?”

Startled by the voice, she whipped around to find an old man in stained, tattered clothing standing at the edge of the building, near the mouth of the alley that ran between it and the next.

First the unrestrained Allure, and now she’d allowed herself to zone out t