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"And why do you want ed on, refusing to acknowledge his thinly veiled threat Think hi from his pores? Ha She’d as easily mistake the Sahara Desert for the North Pole

"Because he has the power to return me to the Fae realm"

"Is he a fairy too?" She stiffened instantly Noto reveal herself to another one, especially not one that possessed all its powers

"Half-Fae But he chooses to reside in the erous, even if only a half-blood "And after I act as your intermediary and he takes you back to Faery, then what?"

"Then all will be ain"

She rolled her eyes "I meant, what happens to otistical little self in your narcissistic little world, guess what--so ahed Tossed back his dark head, white teeth flashing, , and she bit back a soft, appreciative ht be human, but it was dusted with Fae exoticness, froold-velvet skin, to those eyes that flashed with shi sexual presence Potent, larger-than-life Fae essence bottled--and not quite capped--in a mortal body And a perfect mortal body at that

Simply deadly A pure fairy could not have te herself it was a "thing" But now that she kneas all hu, faded jeans, he seeid as the back of her chair She snapped up straight so violently that she nearly toppled herself over

How long had she been thinking of it as "he" and "him" in her mind?

Oh! She wanted to spit, to scrape the foul taste of her own betrayal off her tongue! Had her grand it out, painstakingly rebuilding its it-ness in her ain It had not yet answered her "I said," she repeated, "what aboutyou want, ka-lyrra," it purred "You have but to narily, those dark eyes proht harbor in her deepest heart It wet its lower lip with its tongue, caught it with its teeth, then gave her the slowest, sexiest smile she’d ever seen "Whisper in my ear, Gah-bry-yil, your deepest desires, and I shall ht acerbically (stoically refusing to ponder, for even aher stomach feel kind of sick, but not in a sick way at all), it would forget about her in a heartbeat The ain

But she’d be willing to bet no other fairy would If it was, indeed, Aoibheal herself who’d punished it, barring it from the Fae realotten back to Faery without her royal consent?

And that would lead the for this Brodie person didn’t just immediately hand Gabby over) and ultimately to Gabby herself And then the Hunters would cohter killed mortals as it claimed--she could look forward instead to a lifetiods

That was so not going to happen

"What if I don’t?" she asked stiffly, bracing herself for the worst

It arched a dark brow "What if you don’t what?"

"What if I don’t help you?"

"Why would you not aidI ask of you Merely to speak to someone"

"Oh, please Betraymyself on Fae mercy? As if that’s not an oxymoron Believe you’d just let a Sidhe-seer walk away and live out her life in peace? I’m not that stupid"

It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all a its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified "I give you han," it said softly "I will protect you"

"Right The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she ht actually ?