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"Your Books were right about s," he said coldly "You know that You knehen you took me as your lover You took me anyway"

"You really don’t have a soul?" Of all he’d just told her, she found that the et her brain around it, not now that she knew his that didn’t have souls werewell, evil, weren’t they? Adaood man Better than most, if not all, she’d ever met

"Nope No soul, Gabrielle That’s me, Adam Black, iridescent-eyed, soulless, deadly fairy"

Ouch, she’d said that to hi for a ti on autopilot

And she tried not to ask it, but she’d just begun to believe that maybe the Tuatha Dé weren’t quite so different from humans, only to find out that they were, and she couldn’t stop herself She had to kno different Precisely what she was dealing with "Hearts? Do the Tuatha Dé have hearts?"

"No physiological equivalent" Bored-now voice

"Oh" Upon discovering how erroneous so han lore was, she’d pretty much ejected the bulk of it from her mind, tossed it out with her ht after all Big parts

More driving More silence

You’re not falling for me, are you, Irish? he’d said

And she’d had a minor meltdown because that was precisely the proble She’d fallen As in, past tense Way past tense She was hopelessly in love with hi a drea it with the tiniest and most tender of details

Gwen and Chloe had been absolutely right, and Gabby’d known it herself, even then Just hadn’t wanted to admit it Just as she hadn’t wanted to admit that the reason she’d wanted so desperately to knohy Morganna had refused the elixir was because Gabby had been secretly hoping that he would fall in love with her, too, she could become immortal, and they could love each other forever They could have an eternal Happily-Ever-After

But she wasn’t stupid Ever since he’d told her about Morganna refusing the chance to live forever, she’d known there had to be a catch Just hadn’t knohat a whopper of a catch it was