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"Where would you like me to put the coffee cake, Claudia?"
Claudia Williams turned from arranging her hand-knitted doilies and smiled at her sister. "On the side table and thank you kindly for helping me out, Anna. I know this whole affair was very last minute."
She meant it too. Why she had been saddled with hosting this particular meeting of the Atlanta Ladies Social Club was beyond Claudia and though the maids did a fine job of keeping her large Buckhead manor home clean and in good order, Claudia needed to know for herself that all was arranged and in its proper place.
"I thought it was Therese's turn to put on the tea." Said her younger sister Annabelle, slipping the fine china plate with the sliced cake smoothly onto the polished wooden surface. "Or did she wiggle out of it like the viper she is?"
"Oh, stop that." Claudia chided then giggled at her grinning sibling, "If she ever heard you say that, Therese would sink her fangs into you."
Claudia bit at the air in a mocking display then covered her mouth with a dainty hand to hide her own naughty smirk. To talk in such a fashion about a social peer, it was childish but sinfully enjoyable.
Her sister Annabelle--beautiful Annabelle with her brilliant golden hair, trim pilate-sculpted body and captivating southern belle charms--always brought out the girlish side of Claudia. It was as though they were teenagers again gossiping under their bedsheets about boys and not the grownup ladies they were, approaching that dreaded threshold of middle age.
"It's because she doesn't want one of
them
in her big fancy home, isn't it?" Anna said, smoothing down the front of her floral summer dress and blotting at perspiration gathering on the upper slopes of her full perky breasts with a white kerchief. It was unseasonably hot today, even for a Georgian summer. "Therese doesn't really approve of
The Folk
, does she?"
Claudia sighed and straightened up the sofa cushions for the fifth time that morning then stepped back to assess her chosen battlefield.
Well, her parlor in truth but when dealing with a group like the Atlanta Ladies Social Club you treated every engagement like a skirmish where your words were ammunition and your catering was the artillery. Claudia twisted the plate of finger sandwiches a fraction clockwise before facing her darling sister.
"No, I dare say that she doesn't." She conceded with a sigh. "Help me with the sweet tea?"
The Celestial Conjunction had been the greatest world-changing event of the twenty-first century. Even more-so than either world war or the nuclear arms race. For as long as history had been recorded humanity had been a bunch of warring, bickering tribes on an increasingly global scale until one unexpected day the stars and the planes of existence had magically aligned heralding the return of
The Folk
.
The Fae Folk; Elves, Nymphs, Satyrs, Pixies and many more besides had returned to the mortal plane and brought their troublesome ways and magic with them.
Because the Fae were dying out and they needed humans... or rather: human men, to help bolster their thinning population numbers.
"It's because of that Satyr groundskeeper Daphne Wilkinson hired, wasn't it?" Annabelle asked, following Claudia into the kitchen. "I heard that she caught him screwing the cook silly behind the gardener's shed."
"Anna, language!" Claudia reprimanded sternly before opening the large double-door refrigerator to fetch the chilled jug of iced tea. "But yes, apparently the bleating was quite audible."
Her kitchen, much like the rest of her manor home, was built on a grand scale. An eight-burner stove was set front and center in a long marble countertop, a massive matching kitchen island dominated the middle of the large room and no fewer than
three
breakfast nooks artfully populated the wall of french windows gazing out towards her carefully cultivated flower gardens.
"But Daphne did say that her magnolias had never bloomed so brightly." Claudia added wistfully as she set the cold jug down to gather the drinking glasses.
"Oh, is somebody missing their husband?" Annabelle teased, shooting her older sister a knowing look and seeing straight through Claudia's prim facade of propriety. "Or is the summer heat getting to you, Sis?"
That was the problem with the Fae and their gosh darned magic. No-one had predicted how drastically it would impact a purely technological modern society. How could they have? It wasn't like anyone knew that the creatures of myth and folklore would suddenly show up on humanity's doorstep out of seemingly nowhere.
So magic was suddenly a
thing
now and it was messing with science, medicine, industry and daily life in general on every imaginable level. Fundamental principles and immutable laws of physics could be blown out the window with the wave of a wand, and that was troublesome enough without accounting for the
sociological
impact of those exotically charming interplanar interlopers.
The Fae were, as a species, many and varied in form but all had one thing in common. They were all impossibly alluring,
devastatingly
beautiful and the majority of their dwindling population was predominantly female. Almost
aggressively
female in Claudia's opinion with their stunning figures, otherworldly good-looks and flawless features. And they had all returned to Earth with one major itch to scratch...
"Asher Williams! Don't you
dare
touch those macarons."
Claudia whipped around at the sound of her son's name to catch the scoundrel in the act of pilfering one of her cookies from the cooling rack. Annabelle squawked indignantly and threw a dish towel at the freshly minted highschool graduate, who dodged as he stuffed his grinning mouth full.
"Sorry, Aunty Belle." Ash apologized insincerely through a spray of sugary crumbs. "They just looked and smelled too good."
"Claudia, it's a miracle that your hair hasn't turned white raising an animal like this one." Annabelle declared, grinning back at her nephew and straightening the spaghetti strap of her little summer dress. "He's lucky that he's such a handsome young man or I'd give him a thorough thrashing for misbehaving."
"You could try..." Ash retorted with a cheeky smirk.
Claudia sighed. She supposed Ash had some right to act cocky. He was a good looking eighteen year old with a tall lean physique honed and chiseled by years of playing competitive sports. He was particularly gifted at the game of soccer and had won himself an interstate scholarship to the prestigious Madison University. Though it would mean him moving interstate which broke Claudia's poor heart but try as she might, Ash had his heart set on the change in scenery.
She fondly watched the ridiculous pair play their little game of cat and mouse. Dodging in and out of the furniture as she stacked the drinking glasses neatly on a carry tray. Ash moved as nimble and lithe as a cat with his rusty blonde hair whipping with each explosion of athletic power. Annabelle nearly matched him, her long shapely legs flashing under her floating skirts and her firm rounded breasts bouncing with each darting movement she made to counter the young scoundrel.
Claudia caught her own reflection in the polished steel splash-back of the stove. She was proud of her looks and worked hard to maintain them. Her salon perfect chocolate locks tumbled well past her shoulders and her skin was firm and bronzed thanks to expensive collagen creams she used to combat her hours of gardening in the baking Georgian sunshine.
But were those the beginnings of crows feet around her hazel eyes? And she could swear she was beginning to see the first faint ripples of cellulite on her athletic thighs despite the long hours she spent daily swimming endless laps in their pool. Time marched on and all a girl could do was bow gracefully into the next stage of their life or consider the more...
adventurous
cosmetic options available.
Claudia
tsk-tsked
that notion away immediately. She wasn't some Los Angeles desperate housewife going under the knife to be pumped full of plastic. Neither was she one of these lonely hearts resorting to using
magic
of all things, to tart themselves up like a bunch of shameless you-know-what's. Claudia was a good god-fearing woman!
A buzzing sound shook her from her internal struggle and she saw Asher's phone laying on the floor beside her foot.
"Ash. You dropped your phone, Sugar." She said, stooping to pick it up. "I think you have a call...
oh."
She stared down at the flashing screen and the caller ID displayed on the smartphone. It was backed by a photo. A very
provocative
photo of an overly-endowed young woman with vibrant blue hair and pointed ears wearing entirely too little clothing in Claudia's opinion.
A Fae? Why was one of the Folk calling her Ash and why did he have her listed as a contact in his phone?