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"So I take it we’re not going to try to find this Circenn Brodie person any longer?"

Adaer wait for my son to resurface"

"Y-your hat?" she sputtered, looking at him with an astonished expression

"My son Circenn is"You mean, by a human woman? That’s why he’s only half-Fae? You had a child with a hu his smile behind a sine She sounded both offended andreluctantly fascinated Fascinated was good, very good Precisely what he wanted to hear

"When? Recently?"

"Long ago, ka-lyrra"

"How long ago? And stopme pull teeth, Adam I answered your questions If you expectto me"

She looked as if she were about to leap up froht have antagonized her further, to goad her into doing it for the excuse to pull her into his arms, but he was too charh she’d said his name on other occasions, this was the first time she’d used it so casually in conversation He’d been waiting for it to happen It was aacceptance of him He was no fool; he knew he’d been an "it" to her at first Then the sin siriche du, or the blackest fairy, then his full name, Adam Black

But noas just Adam He wondered if she had any idea what she’d just betrayed

"Circenn was born in 811 AD," he told her "He lived in his time until the early 1500s, when he met a woman from your century They now live in your time"

Her eyes widened "I don’t think I even want to kno that happened It would just give me a headache"

She was silent abehind her green-gold eyes as she pondered which one to ask next He was pleased by what she chose

"So does that mean any children you have are also immortal, even if they’re only half-fairy? Not that I personally care," she added hastily "I was just thinking itto add to our books"

The only person ould be adding anything to those idiotic books was hiht "No, Gabrielle, only a full-blooded Tuatha Dé is born iave rant select humans immortality" She didn’t need to know that he’d done it without his son’s knowledge or consent Or that Circenn had hated him when he’d found out what he’d done Had, in fact, spentto speak to hie hie with the best of immortals