Time Jacker by Aaron Crash (nonfiction book recommendations .TXT) 📕

The angel shrugged, but she was a bit pale. “I have no idea what that is.”

“Back to Kerrata.”

The angel put her glass daintily on the coffee table, on a coaster of course. “Kerrata was pulling Kairos from Evelyn Mundi slowly. We call those the slow seconds. He was building up the Kairos in himself, slowly. In essence, he was charging himself. For what? I don’t know. But that was his plan. And we have to stop him, whatever he’s doing. We have to give Evelyn back her Kairos so she lives a long time. And we have to rescue Annie. After that, no more time hijinks, Jack. Promise me.”

“I’m not going to promise you anything,” he said. “But we’ll see.”

Bailey came barreling in, tossed Jack’s wallet on his tiny kitchen table, and set the bags on the counter. She’d scrubbed most of the makeup off her face but had missed some. Jack was no expert, but he thought some sort of remover was necessary.

Bailey winked at him. She still looked good, though those shoes and dress made it impossible for her to blend in.

“How did you pay?” Jack asked. He didn’t have the cash for all those bags.

The sex demon shrugged. “I kissed some woman, Becky, I think, so she showed me how to use credit cards. She was okay. She liked candlelit dinners, roses, and lots of lovey-dovey language from her boyfriend, Gary. Gary.” The sex demon rolled her eyes. “Good thing Becky was also very bi-curious. She has these very elaborate lesbian fantasies. She should write romance.”

Jack winced. “And what did you buy?”

Bailey unwrapped a red Blow Pop and tossed the wrapper on the floor. She stuck the lollipop into her mouth. “You’ll see.”

Chapter Fifteen

JACK HAD ANOTHER QUESTION for Bailey, who stood in the kitchen part of his tiny apartment sucking on the Blow Pop. “How much money did you spend?”

“Five thousand dollars. Is that right? Does that sound right?” The demon shrugged and started taking things out of bags. “I got makeup. I got a few lessons, but the woman behind the counter said there are makeup tutorials on something called View Tube.”

“Close,” Jack said. “So you bought makeup, and what else?”

“Clothes, food, just stuff.” Bailey wrinkled her nose at him. “It’s not like it’s a big deal. You’re going to use your time-stopping powers and we’re going to rob people. And you did security at a bank. We could just go into the vault and grab all the money. Or I noticed there are cash registers in stores. Just take the money. Duh!”

Gabby stood and slammed her sword on the floor. “I will not let you corrupt Jack! He wanted to be a police officer. He wanted to serve and protect!”

Bailey rolled her eyes. “And now he can stop time. Things change, Gabby. If you weren’t so stupid and new, you’d know that.”

“I’m not new! I’ve been around humans for ten months now!” The halo winked on, filling Jack’s apartment with a glaring light. Gabby put her golden horn to her lips.

“I take it back!” the sex demon said. “Don’t blow that thing. I take it all back.”

Gabby’s halo slowly faded. She lifted a slim wrist and jiggled her golden bracelets. “If I need to, I’ll sell some of my celestial jewelry. I chose to bring it forth onto this body because I thought it made me look cute. But it is solid gold.”

“It looks fake,” Bailey sneered.

Gabby raised the horn again.

The demon threw up her hands. “No. It looks good. I bought you a present.”

Gabby put both the sword and the horn on the easy chair. She clapped her hands together with joy. “Really?”

Bailey reached into a Macy’s bag, and Jack expected the worst. Would she pull out a pig’s head?

Nope. Bailey drew out a white business suit with a peach-colored blouse, all on the hanger, and all ready to wear. She even had a pair of low white heels to match. “Listen, Feathers, you can’t walk around in those sandals and that tunic.”

Gabby got a little teary. She drew in the demon for a hug. “Oh, Bailey. You’re not just a core of Ijjinaya. You do have some Nefesh.”

The demon shoved the angel away. “Don’t kid yourself. I’m a sex demon. I just don’t want you embarrassing Jack. More than you obviously will.”

The angel held the outfit up. “I’ll go and change.”

“Why not change right here?” Bailey leaned back against the counter in Jack’s tiny kitchen. Her arms were crossed.

Gabby turned away, took three steps toward Jack’s bedroom, then spun back around. “I know what happened earlier might make you think that I want to have sex with you all the time. I can’t let that happen again, and any masturbating I do, I’ll be doing alone. So, let’s pretend that...that...”

“That you didn’t watch Jack and me fuck?” Bailey asked.

The angel nodded. “Sex is natural and good, but I have to focus. Otherwise, I’m afraid I won’t...I’ll get caught up.” She started spitting out sentence fragments. “I want a soulful connection. And kisses. Monogamy. Chastity is a thing people think is good. So, no more sex. You two can go at it, however, and I hope you have so much fun together!”

“But you’ll be thinking of us when you touch yourself.” Bailey’s smile was as demonic as her little black heart. “I know you’re not going to be able to stay pure.”

The angel rolled her eyes and went into the other room to change.

Bailey came over and grabbed Jack, kissing him. “You taste like how I want to smell. How about you cook us up something good?”

“I don’t cook. And I would imagine you and Miss Feathers don’t either. We should order burritos.”

“Definitely burritos,” Bailey agreed. “I don’t think I want dessert for a while. However, at the store, I didn’t know what else to buy, so I bought chocolate cake and cherry pie. I might want them at some point.”

Jack called in an order to the Burrito King and