DaneHow do I begin to explain the worst decision I ever made to my best friend? Sure, Trudy was a best friend with benefits now, but she’d always been there for me, even back when we were kids. Now what I had to tell her was so vile that I feared losing her forever.
With Trudy lying on the couch, shaken and pale, now wasn’t the best time to explain. But there was never going to be a good time. I didn’t want her to think that I would hurt her or anyone else in Icy Cap purposely.
“Last night wasn’t the first time I met the succubus. Back in high school, I met a young woman out on the edge of the sea ice. She said she was lost. She wasn’t from Icy Cap. I learned, too late, the succubus trolls the shoreline for sailors or hunters to glamour.”
I paused, looking over at Trudy. Her eyes were c
