Louis warned me about those people because of the succubus and incubus demons that attached themselves to them and preyed on innocents when given the opportunity. He said that with just one look into their eyes, either one could seduce you… and once they had latched on, they were impossible to detach from- he said they could suck a person dry before they released them, if they released them at all! In awe of his worldliness, I asked, “How do you know such things,” holding my breath fearing the answer. ‘Because he had been witness to it,’ he answered. On more than one occasion, one had tried to seduce him and he had to learn how to avoid them. I giggled as a vision came to me about seducing him and him readily falling for it - I said that maybe I was a succubus and that was how I had seduced him into marriage. Louis quickly placed his fingers on my lips. “Don’t ever say such things,” he whispered. “But why?” I asked, trying to smother my giggle. “I was only teasing.” “Don’t say it, even jokingly; these things have no souls, it is your soul they seek.” Angelique sat to my left. I glanced sideways at her. She could be a succubus, I thought to myself and then smiled at the thought. She sat upright, …show more content…
“I had you two quite convinced that I was telling the truth about my stepmother, didn’t I?” he chuckled. Angelique and I glanced at one another. “Of course, I was only teasing to see how you would react,” Boudreaux’s expression became more serious. “My stepmother was actually quite the prude. She would not have been caught dead, naked, much less frolicking with a young boy. She was so much the prude that my father never had any more sons and when he was home, he spent most of his nights out in the quarters.” I glanced at my mother- I knew exactly what she was thinking. My father spent most of his nights out in the Quarter’s too, but it was not because she was a