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    “What’s her name?” He sat forward slightly.
    “Daisy.” It hurt yet strengthened me to say her name out loud.
    “Pretty name.” He turned off the already muted TV.
    “You didn’t have to turn that off.”
    He shrugged. “No reason to have a distraction on.”
    “Why are you up?” I had an excuse to be wandering the house in the middle of the night, and I assumed he had one of his own.
    “Let’s finish talking about you first.”
    “I already told you. I lost someone.” It was easier to say the second time, but it still hurt.
    “You lost this Daisy. By lost you mean, what? She dumped you?” He didn’t sound particularly certain about his suggestion.
    “No.” I shook my head. “That would be a whole lot simpler.”
    “Then what?”
    I looked out into the hallway. “I don’t want to upset Mom with this.”
    “Your mother wants to know about your life.”
    “I know.” She was well meaning, but she would get bent out of shape over my situation and try to protect me. And it was too late for that.
    “I’ll use my discretion about what to tell her if you think this is going to upset her.” Dad pressed his hand into the empty couch cushion next to him.
    “It’s not that it will upset her, but she’ll worry about me.”
    “She’s already worried about you. We both are.” My dad didn’t usually admit that sort of thing, which worried me.
    “You might not believe me.” I didn’t mind that possibility as much as you’d think. It would make the conversation shorter.
    “Try me.” He smiled.
    “Do you know anything about Allures?” Saying the name simultaneously angered me and sent a shot of pain through my heart.
    “The mythical creatures?” He rubbed the back of his neck. “Yes. I know of them.”
    “They aren’t mythical.” I waited for his reaction.
    “Ok…” He nodded. Not the reaction I expected.
    “And Daisy has become one. But not by choice. Or not really.”
    “Let’s accept for the moment that Allures exist.”
    “They do.”
    “Ok, so accepting that. What do you mean she didn’t do it by choice—really?”
    “In the end she had a choice—or really I did, but she wouldn’t let me make it.” I rubbed the back of my neck.
    “Is there a reason you are dancing around your answer?”
    “I had the choice to save her by giving up my wings.” I waited for my dad to lose it. He was the reason I even had wings. I inherited my Pteron side from him.
    “And you would have?” He leaned forward on the couch.
    “Yes.” I’d thought about the decision many times, and each time I’d come to the same conclusion. Daisy was worth it.
    “You really love her.”
    “I do.” With all my heart and soul.
    “But Allures trade their capacity to feel emotion for immortality.”
    “Yes.” He knew more about Allures than I expected. “But she didn’t want immortality. She never asked to become an Allure; she was given a paste and started to change.”
    “Instead of letting you give up your wings, she gave up her human self.” He paused for a moment. “She loved you.”
    “I know.”
    “So what are you doing back here? Why is Hailey involved? Do you have a plan yet?” He clasped his hands in front of him.
    “A plan for what?”
    “A plan to get her back.”
    “I can’t do it that easily.” If only I could.
    “But there is always a way. The thing about our world is nothing is ever impossible. It may be difficult and it may be at a high cost, but you can do it.”
    “What makes you so confident?” He was generally the realistic one.
    “I convinced your mother to marry me. If that was possible then anything is.”
    “I thought it was love at first sight.” I remembered my parents’ meeting story well. I’d always wanted the kind of relationship they had. Even forty-years later they were still incredibly in love.
    “It was. But that didn’t mean she wanted to marry me. She never intended to have a family.”
    “What?” That was news to me.
    “She was