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wanted to be.

She had waited for this all of her life, and now she was running

away?

“Come along, miss.” The red man looked at her curiously. “Well,

what are you waiting for? I can get you home.”

Meg shook her head. Her decision was made. “I changed my

mind. I don’t want to go home. Honestly, my life there kind of

sucked. Maybe life here will suck, too, but shouldn’t I give it a

chance? When you think about it, it really is kind of cool. I mean, I

have seen more weird-ass shit in the last twenty-four hours than most

people see in a lifetime. Vampires! How freaking cool is that? They

have their own plane and apparently are just as interested in their

stock portfolios as they are in blood. And gnomes! Sure, they didn’t

actually have any travel tips for me, so they weren’t like the ones at

home, but the ones at home are ceramic. They aren’t half as awesome

as the ones here. And the sidhe.” Meg sighed. “I think I care about

him. He needs me. I can’t walk away.”

“But don’t you want to go home?”

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Meg rolled her eyes. “Screw my home. Somewhere out there is

this superhot faery. He paid a lot of money for me. My ex-husband

never took me to any place nicer than a Chili’s because he was a

cheap ass. Beck already spent more on me than any man ever has, and

then he had to do the Fight Club thing. No one ever fought for me before. Sure, he was kind of a dickhead afterward, but I think I can

work on that problem. And I haven’t even met his other half. I think

they’re identical. Twins should be identical, right? Even if they aren’t,

even if he’s unattractive, I’ll be okay with it because Cian is a part of

Beck. If I love one, then I have to love and accept the other. Right?”

The red man took a deep breath. “You’re a strange girl. You speak

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