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I can’t help myself. “Okay. I have to know. How did you get all those fairy slippers to grow? I’ve only ever seen one, and I really want to be able to grow them around my cabin, but I just can’t seem to get them to grow!”
Her smile grows wide, and I feel like I’m standing in front of a living rainbow.
“I think we’re going to be very good friends, Iris.”
The thought is… really nice.
I give her a genuine smile. “I’d like that.”
“Good. Please, come inside.”
I walk into her house, and Thorne follows me.
Inside, the faerie woman somehow makes the tiny one-room cottage look like it’s a whole house. I have no idea how she does it, so I end up accepting the only explanation that makes sense.
Magic.
“The fairy slippers just kind of grow wherever I go,” she says. She sits Thorne and I down on a couch that honestly looks like it’s made of giant leaves stitched together. However, it’s soft as air under my butt.
I sink into it and accept the cup of tea she offers me. The ermine prances up Coral’s shoulder, laying on her like a mink stole. I close my eyes and sip, then moan. “How did you get jasmine green tea out here?”
“I have a greenhouse. I make my own,” she explains.
Yep. I’m going to be friends with Coral. “That’s amazing.”
“Thank you. So,” she says, glancing between Thorne and me. “What brings you here? Evander said it had something to do with the baby?”
I blink. “How did you know?”
“I can sense life, my friend. I knew the minute you walked up to my door.”
“Oh. Okay. Must be nice to be a living pregnancy test.”
Coral laughs. “I never thought of it that way, but sure.”
Thorne nods. “Coral, we need to know what’s going on. How is our fated mate bond possible if Iris is human?”
She studies both of us. With her fine bone structure and pale, almost white, blue eyes, it’s easy to see that Coral isn’t human.
I’m kind of jealous. At least if I wasn’t human, Thorne would accept that our baby was his.
Something flashes in Coral’s eyes, and she looks between us. “That’s not what you want to ask me.”
Thorne blinks. “What?”
“You want to know if the baby is yours.”
“No. I know it can’t be. And Iris has reasons for keeping the baby’s identity secret, and I’m ready to accept that. But I just… we’re fated mates. I can feel the bond. And I just want to know… how?”
Coral narrows her eyes and stares at him, then looks back at me. “You’re so certain that, in a world where fated mates are possible, your mate is still human?”
“Yes,” Thorne smiles. “I love that about her.”
My heart skips a beat.
Did he just say… love?
“You love that I’m human?”
