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you. It would probably go away if you jumped on top of me and

bounced around for a while. Well, it wouldn’t go away for long.”

Getting to her feet, Meg turned away from the too-tempting sight.

Her second husband was proving even more troublesome than the

first. She needed to get properly dressed and get her day started.

Perhaps then she would be better equipped to handle Cian. Her day

clothes were still in the cottage. She would take some time to collect

herself and then see to the farm.

“I’m going to get dressed. You…I don’t know. Just take care of

/> that,” she said, avoiding the delicious sight of him as she stumbled out

of the room.

She expected to step out into the leftover destruction from the

night before, but the yard was pristine once more, without a sign of

what had gone on. The gathering had been huge, with everyone in the

village showing up to dance and drink. She had been introduced to

sidhe, brownies, trolls, gnomes, and some dwarves down from the

mountains. They had toasted Cian’s health and the twins’ marriage.

Everyone spoke of Beck with great fondness, and Meg had learned a

lot about her wayward husband. He had saved many of the people of

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the village at great cost to himself. For years after the civil war, he

had worked hard to settle refugees from his home plane.

It would have been very easy for the king to settle on the Vampire

plane. The Dellacourts were a wealthy family who would have taken

in Beck and Cian. He could have lived in luxury, and no one would

have blamed him. Instead, at seventeen, he decided to establish a

village on a safe plane to give his people a home.

Beck was their protector. Without him, the Fae would have

dispersed and more than likely had trouble surviving on their own.

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