nancy werlock's diary s01 - episodes 9 Read Online Free PDF

of. And those people are always so ridiculous. Half those letters are made up!”
    “Nancy, listen to me. Lee is your servitor. Whether you intended that or not. Whether you wanted it or not, you are bound to him until death. If your romantic relationship goes south, you will still be stuck with him. If you cut this off now you still have the opportunity to gently guide him into some level of normalcy. If you really care about him, you have to let him develop a life that doesn’t revolve around you.”
    “And that is what I am doing, Mom. Helping him develop his own life.”
    “By sleeping with him? What are you going to do if he evolves into an incubus?”
    “He’s not going to become an incubus. You’re being melodramatic now.”
    “He is evolving, Nancy. You do realize that? He’s not a lemure anymore. He’s barely a skinwalker.”
    “I know that, Mom! I’m a Rank Two demonologist. I recognize demonic evolution when I see it!”
    “Well fine, little miss Rank Two demonologist. What is he evolving into?”
    “I don’t know. But neither do you!”
    “And neither does your grandmother. And that is the problem. And she has been actively trying to figure it out .”
    I sit back down at the table and process what Mom just said. “Mom, you’ve seen him. There is no corruption. Even his eyes have normalized. You can barely see the demonic evidence on him. Whatever he is evolving into, it isn’t going to be some nightmarish chaos monster. It will still be Lee.”
    “ Lee Brennon is dead, Nancy,” says Mom while jabbing a finger in my direction. “ A demon moved into his body and made himself comfortable .” She stands up and folds her arms in front of her. “ Think about this. One day, Lee is going to want to do something that you won’t want him to do. And you will use your control over him to force him to obey. And it won’t be out of anger or hate that you do it. It will be because you genuinely think it is in his best interest and that you are protecting him. But it won’t matter. Because the day you do it is the day he’ll remember he isn’t your boyfriend or your husband, gods forbid it gets that far. He’ll remember he is a servitor and you are his master, and your relationship, whatever it has become at that point, will be forever torn.”
    “Then I need to make sure that it doesn’t come to that.”
    Mom doesn’t reply. She just shakes her head and vanishes back beyond the Veil.
     
     
     
     
     

Anima tion
     
     

October 1 st ,
     
     
    “Do you really think this is a good idea?” asks Houston as the customers gather around the table for their card readings. “You remember what happened with Mrs. Martins.”
    In August, Anastasia acquired a very well-crafted tarot card deck from the same eBay vendor that created the movie prop grimoire that was used to accidentally summon Lee into the world. Through a combination of a thin veil and her youthful enthusiasm for all things magic, Anastasia managed to bring an anima into being. The anima bound itself to Anastasia and her tarot deck, helping her give accurate readings despite her lack of actual magical ability. When her reading indicated Mrs. Martins was going to have an accident, she was too scared to tell the woman. She later died after falling down her stairs. The woman was already old and had a history of medical problems, but Anastasia blamed herself.
    “I already talked to her about how to handle negative readings,” I say as I count down the register drawer. “If she ends up with a reading that makes her uncomfortable, she’s to come get me immediately.”
    “And then you tell the lady she’s going to die. That’s a great solution!”
    “Hush!” I reopen the register for Houston and move around the counter to go set up a holiday display.
    Anastasia sits down at the table and extends her arms in front of her dramatically in what she refers to as “gathering her energies” motion. She’s dressed in a white poet blouse