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about?”
    “I’m talking about the woman in my bedroom, whose boobs are apparently so new and so much bigger, her entire body’s equilibrium is off! Are you serious?”
    Clenching his jaw, he barely managed to grit the words out. “She’s a fairy. Twenty minutes ago she was the size of Thumbelina and sleeping in a goddamn flower.”
    Hope blinked at him. “Great.” She threw her hands up and stalked past him, scooping her daughter out of her tiny tea-party chair. “Now you’re on drugs. Anything else I should know?”
    “She was a gift from Aunt Mellie, who was apparently aware tonight was my dinner with…” His words trailed off as he scrubbed a hand over his face. “Fuck. Rhiannon.”
    Her eyes looked like they were about to bulge out of her head. “ Rhiannon? You’re seeing Rhiannon again? For sweet Pete’s sake, big brother, do you not remember the kind of hell she put you through? Why would you want to open that door again?”
    Momentarily satisfied she wasn’t going to cause him physical harm or kick him out, he sat on the couch. Leaning forward, he shoved his fingers through his hair before he braced his arms against his thighs and shook his head. “It seemed like the right thing to do. She was devastated when I called everything off, and she said she needed answers.”
    “It’s a bad, bad road to go down, Nathan.” She sighed, and moved over to sit next to him on the couch. “That woman is a manipulative monster, and she tore you up a hell of a lot more than you hurt her. You just never saw it.”
    He shrugged, because he didn’t have an answer. Rhiannon had needed him—she’d always needed him, ever since they were kids. She was self-destructive, her desperation for him toxic, and no matter what he’d done, he’d never been able to pull her out of her downward spiral.
    Hope nudged his arm with her shoulder. “Tell me why I shouldn’t kick you out of my house for bringing a half-naked woman into it?”
    “Fairy, Hope.” He turned his head to look at her, and arched a brow. “ I am talking about a fairy. She can’t walk because she lost her wings when she got spooked outside my office, and her entire equilibrium is off.”
    Her mouth dropped open. “You’re serious. You actually believe this.”
    “It’s either that, or I’m insane, so yeah. At the moment, I believe this.” He let out a bitter laugh. “As soon as she’s decent, we’re heading to Mellie’s place so I can demand some answers.”
    His sister nodded slowly, her brow furrowing in thought. “Okay, let’s just say you’re not mental, and this is really happening. Why would the old bat send you a fairy?”
    He snorted so hard he was sure he popped a vein somewhere. “Because, like the sane person she is, she said if I took care of the plant, it would love me forever.”
    “Plant?”
    He nodded, past caring how demented he sounded. “Yes, plant. The one that opened to reveal a fairy inside of it.” He dragged a hand down his face. “A fairy who was apparently kidnapped from her home, and has no idea how to get back to it, or how she became almost five-feet tall.”
    “Oh. My. God.” When Nathan’s gaze snapped to Hope, she slowly got to her feet, her face astonished. “You like this woman, this fairy. Like, like her, like her.”
    “What are you talking about?” he asked, irritated.
    It was her turn to snort. “Dude, in the five minutes we’ve been sitting here talking, you’ve glanced toward my bedroom ten times. Ten. I counted. Besides,” she chirped, pointing at him and grinning, “it’s written all over your face. You look somewhere between dazed and completely thunderstruck.”
    “You’ve lost your…” His words trailed off as Katenia finally opened the bedroom door. Anything else he’d been about to say was gone. His tongue swelled in his mouth and his heart lodged in his throat.
    Sweet Jesus, she was beautiful. The skinny jeans clung to her like a second skin, and the soft green V-neck