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A guard’s voice cut through her lust.Something about the time and checking on the princess.Checking onher.They couldn’t have given her a few more minutes of this?
Perry froze and swore.
“I’ll beat the guards there.”She would.
“You’ll come back?”
“I will.Before they…” She made herself say the rest.“Before they take you back to the human realm.”
“I won’t leave you.”
“We’ll figure something out.”
“You’ll come with me.”He sounded so pleading, so raw, so desperate for her agreement that she couldn’t give him anything else.
“I will.”She kissed him quickly.“Promise.But I have to go now.”
The warmth of his hand on her back comforted her as he followed her to the closet, his breath hot on her neck and tickling her ear.“Therewasa secret passage.”He sounded like a little kid who’d found an unexpected present.“I couldn’t find it.”
“It wouldn’t be much of a hidden tunnel if it didn’t require a trick to reveal it.”She scratched a fingernail over the tiny pinprick she’d made earlier, golden blood glistening.
“Is it always blood?”Perry asked.
“With goblins?Yes.”
Reaching into the nook where she kept the privacy stones, she pressed her fingertip to the stone.A narrow door opened without a sound.
“No wonder I didn’t see you come in,” he said.
“There’s more.”She hesitated, stumbling over the secret.He was the right person to share it with—her consort for as long as he wanted to be.“You know goblins don’t have magic.”
“Other than the slipping skins, the strength, the speed.”The nonstop attorney would argue with anyone.
“My mother’s queen—the faerie queen—granted me a secret power to celebrate my birth.”
He winced.“Like the evil faerie in theSleeping Beautymovie?”
“Close, but no narcolepsy required.It’s the mirror of my mother’s powers.I’ve never told anyone.”
He curled the side of his mouth into a lazy, satisfied smile.“Yeah?”He shouldn’t be able to make her this happy in the middle of a race with a goblin guard, but he did.
“We call it shadow magic.You ready?”
“Pretty sure.”
Mischievous pleasure at his use of her favorite phrase bubbled along her skin like a tease.A challenge.“We’ll see about that.”
