Free Keeley Thomson (Book 2): Keelzebub by P.S. Power

shine to them. At least on the sidewalls. He waited for Keeley to hand off the Key’s to Frieda to her mom and then for Sherry to drive off before doing anything.
    After they settled into the cushy interior and the car was turned on, making it purr so quietly it didn’t really sound like a car at all, Dan turned to her.
    “Hungry?”
    “Starved.” She was after all. Constantly. She’d missed breakfast and then set up three deals, each one draining her just a little.
    The man next to her smiled and gave her an impressed look.
    “Three? You’ve only been doing this for a week too. That’s pretty impressive. Keep this up and soon you’ll be running the country.” The car pulled out smoothly, he was very careful when he drove, all the Demons she knew so far had been.
    “Who’d want to run a country? Sounds like a lot of work, with very little pay off. Besides, I’m only on my first job and not even out of the mailroom yet. I think I might have a bit to go before trying anything that ambitious. A couple of weeks at least.”
    That got a hearty laugh, after a few seconds the Demon pulled into a McDonald’s and got in the drive-through lane. It made sense, they could pretend they were getting breakfast for a dozen people and no one would think anything of it. Her stomach tried to eat itself in its hunger while they waited, which was annoying. What she’d done earlier must have really burned through a lot of energy. Almost everything she did had to, she realized.
    Oops.
    It probably made sense not to waste energy then, until she got a handle on things. Live and learn no doubt.
    “It does take some time.” Dan spoke as if they’d been talking out loud, so she answered that way.
    “Well, if I can make it through the next few years, I’ll probably have figured it out. So far it’s going alright. You know, the not dying yet thing.”
    Then Dan wanted to know all about her training, what Darla was up too and if she was dating or not, and if so, how many people, or beings. Shaking her head Keeley refused to tell him anything. He was a Demon after all, not that he couldn’t find out by reading her mind, but hey, if he wanted to know she was single, straight and sixteen, he could figure it out for himself the way everyone else did. Stalking her on the internet.
    That got another laugh at least.
    “A real point, you don’t know me yet. I’m not a threat to you though. Or Darla. I hope that in time we can be friends. Life is far too long to go it alone Keeley. Not everyone will help you, but it can’t hurt to be aware of those that are willing.”
    They ordered, got the food and sat eating hungrily for about half an hour before contacting the first caterer using Dan’s cell. That was a bust, since they were busy on Friday night already. The next two as well. It wasn’t until they got to the fourth one that they hit pay dirt. They had the staff to handle five separate functions, if they weren’t too elaborate, and just had a really large cancelation not ten minutes before.
    Convenient. Maybe too much so.
    Then, things did just happen in real life, so Keeley decided to just be a little wary and accept it as normal unless something showed it to be otherwise.
    The trip over was uneventful, morning traffic being light. It didn’t hurt that Dan kept hitting all the lights as they turned green, perfectly. Some of the lights in the city were timed, so if you drove at twenty-seven miles per hour after hitting the first one, you never had to stop. This stretch was the main street area though, and wasn’t like that at all. Keeley was just about to ask when the man spoke, changing the topic all together.
    “I was wondering if you had plans for Halloween? I’m holding a party and I’d love it if you and Darla could come. No one will be there that can’t know about you, of course. I wouldn’t have invited any of that type anyway. It might be a good place for you to start building contacts. It never hurts to know people,