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too. Is this punishment for how I treated you during our phone sex?”
     
    She pouted, something she never did. “You’re telling me you didn’t enjoy it?”
     
    “Woman, please.”
     
    Kai laughed. “Sorry. I entertain
myself tormenting men.” Maybe she was more like Ove than she thought. “Come along, lover. I’m hungry.”
     
    They were soon seated, and Kai
busied herself with unfolding her napkin and placing it across her lap. When
she had put in her order for a salad and nothing else, Donovan protested.
“That’s all you’re having?”
     
    “I’m on a diet.”
     
    He perused the menu for the
second time and then looked up at the waiter. “Go ahead and give me two of
those, one for the lady. Thanks.”
     
    “What?” Kai put her hands on her
hips. “I do not need you to order for me, Donovan.”
     
    “Say it again.”
     
    “Say what again?”
     
    He grinned. “My name. It sounds incredible
falling from those sweet lips.”
     
    She rolled her eyes. “Down boy.
We’re here for me to learn a little about you. My father says he has not heard
of you. So who are you? What’s your secret?”
     
    He leaned back in his chair,
appearing to be at ease, like he had not a care in the world and nothing that
would make her run in the opposite direction. But everyone had them. Hers the
biggest of all. If only he knew what she was. She
hadn’t been tormenting him when she didn’t call him. She’d been regenerating.
The process took a lot out of her, and she had to depend on Mitzi and Bevin to
take care of her physical body until her spirit could blend with it again. What
would she do if someone stole it or destroyed it? Would she have to exist as
Bevin did? She had no idea how.
     
    “I have no secrets,” he insisted.
“But I will tell you about myself. I am the oldest of ten brothers.”
     
    “Ten! No girls?”
     
    He shook his head. “None. I am
responsible for them all in a manner of speaking. I head up the family
business. Both my parents are alive and well, as yours are.”
     
    “Are they together?”
     
    “They are.” He hesitated. “In my
family, the men are very dominant. It would not occur to my mother to leave my
father. He would never allow it anyway.”
     
    Kai stared at him like he’d lost
his mind. He must have. She leaned forward over the table. “Save my peace of
mind and tell me she works outside the home.”
     
    He grimaced. “With ten boys?
True, five are old enough to have moved out. The others are still in school.”
He burst out laughing. The timbre of his voice sent shivers over her body. “You
can’t judge me. You’re still living at home. Isn’t that against the norm?
You’re what, twenty-five?”
     
    She smirked. “Nice try. I’m
thirty. And I’m still at home because it’s pointless to move out. My mother
owns a mansion. I don’t have to run into her if I don’t want to.” She didn’t
say the last time she’d tried it, poor Bevin had had his hands full all night
every night trying to ward off enemies. And Ove had
refused to get his friend to cast a protection spell over her apartment. He had
been determined she should live in her mother’s house. If she wanted to live as
a human, then she had to make sacrifices.
     
    “Uh huh. Like you didn’t ‘run’
into her when she banged on the door while we were in the midst of some hot
phone sex.”
     
    She waved her hand and stood up.
“Dance with me?” She tried to make it less commanding. Still he raised an
eyebrow. She imagined him bringing her home to his parents, a woman who loved
working at her mother’s corporation and would not give it up for any man.
     
    What the hell? Her thoughts had strayed in the wrong direction.
Donovan would be her lover. That’s all. Nothing more.
     
    He rose and took her hand, a
reproving look on his face. No doubt he wanted to be the one to ask her to
dance. Could he be more old fashioned? They moved out
on the dance floor, and she glided into his