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Didn’t rave; trois Hell, why not, weird good-looking guy with a weirder, voluptuous wife And Megan Beautiful blond Megan, a total contrast to all that black, except for the cloak she is wearing…

Don’t be a co

"Megan is always gorgeous!" he called back He excused hi the cost of a pair of earrings and reached his wife’s side

"Finn "Joseph shook his hand "So--how are you enjoying Salereat," he lied

Morwenna slipped fro line Jaister She looked anxiously at both of them

"Heard there was a coh she looked at her cousin, Finn was certain there was a note of accusation in her voice and that it was an said with a sigh "I had a night"

"Bizarre," Joseph said, and his single word seemed like an accusation to Finn as well

"No ht for either of us," Finn forced hi to take offense--at least he wasn’t going to let them knoas offended

"I think I should read your palan seriously

"You all are way too busy in here," Megan said, and Finn was glad

"Jaister, Joseph can watch the store, and hey! We’ve got a new girl working for us who is great Actually, she’s not so neent to high school together Sara She’ll give Finn a reading while I do yours"

Megan laughed, shrugging, and looking at Finn "You did say you were going to have a pal"

He wanted to protest No This was all silly He had said he was going to do it Be nice to her weird relatives no

"Sure"

"Call Sara," Morwenna told Joseph

Sara didn’t have to be called Finn knew that she had to be the woed fro wos in her brow, her lip, and her nose, who see over whatever the palm reader had told her as if she had just iazine

Apparently, sos very seriously

"See you next week," the pierced princess told Sara

Then he was somewhat unnerved hirave eyes

"You’re ?" she queried She was a small woman, no more than five-foot one or tith deep, dark, soulful eyes and long brown hair Though small, she was shapely, like a compact dynamo, except that she didn’t seem to move a lot, just to exude soy

"Sara, this is Finn Douglas, an’s husband," Morwenna said, in way of introduction "And, of course, this is Megan You two haven’t"Hi Morwenna talks about you all the tianI ," Sara said

Finn looked at Megan, trying to control a rueful grian didn’t reply ords He could see the laughter and gratitude in her eyes

"We’re this way," Morwenna told Megan

Megan wiggled a brow to Finn and followed her cousin through a beaded separator to the back, where, behind the wafting beads, he could see worktables, chairs, and to each side, doors to sle of the shop’s layout

"That ht," Sara told Finn

He had a strange feeling of beingcompletely churlish, he couldn’t back out now And he was angry with hi to take any of it seriously They were in Salean’s relatives for that amount of time He could listen to people extol the virtues of incense and gemstones He could let a woman stare at his palm and pretend to see his past, future, and present

"She’s the best," Joseph said lightly, ister to help Jaer to pay for their wares was growing larger

Finn followed Sara The door to the left was already shut Sara preceded hiht doorway

The tiny room hat he had expected Dark There was a table, and a chair on either side of it There was a crystal ball on the table, Tarot cards to the right of it, and a lamp Sara turned on the laht

"I’ll need your palm," she told hi lifeline," she said iht touch as she ran her forefinger down the length of what must have been his "life" line He was surely supposed to ask if he could expect a nice long life, but stubbornly, he refused to rise to any such bait

"Very strange"

"Really? Does thator short?"