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commented from her perch on the bathroom counter top, legs swinging as she pawed through my make-up case. 
    “I’ll be sure to tell him you thought so, that ought to make him happy,” I replied, trying and failing to get my hair to cooperate with the sophisticated updo I’d seen in a magazine ad. 
    “Here, let me help you,” Maggie offered, her nimble fingers combing through my blonde hair.  “He is very dishy at that,” she ventured shyly.  “Where did you meet him?”
    “He um… sort of popped into my life unexpectedly, not long after I got to San Francisco.”
    Maggie sighed, fingers twisting and pulling at my head so that I couldn’t see what she was doing.  “And was it love at first sight?”
    “Not even close.  In fact, I think I remember yelling at him the first time we spoke.”
    “Ooh, hot blooded.”  Ellie waggled her brows at me, snapping her gum around a grin.  “Lust at first sight then?”
    “Maybe, a little.”  It was definitely more of a lust connection with Jakob.  Then again, I didn’t know him as well as I thought I’d known Bishop.
    “You sure can pick ‘em,” Ellie continued, no boundary to her comments.  “I thought Bishop was a right go’er, but I’d take a ride with this one m’self.  Oh look, she’s gone scarlet!” she laughed, and I did my best not to let her get to me. 
    “Leave her be, Ellie,” Maggie chided her lightly.  “Anja’s not one to kiss and tell.”
    I caught Maggie’s eye in the mirror, giving her a short nod of thanks. 
    “What is he then?” Ellie asked, unrepentant . 
    I blinked, not understanding the question.   “What do you mean?”
    “He’s not a vampire, your beau.”
    “No, not exactly.”  It occurred to me that we’d talked about the origin of the Ellri back in England, and I hoped she hadn’t put two and two together. 
    “But he’s not human either.”
    “No, definitely not a human,” I allowed, taking control of the conversation.  “He’s… something else.  Something dangerous, so watch what you say around him.  In fact, maybe don’t talk to him a whole lot, okay?”
    “Fine.  I’ll lower my eyes and stand aside when he gets here then, shall I?”  She hopped off the counter, bowing and scraping her way to the door. 
    “Good plan,” I teased, lobbing a foam curler in her direction, the motion making my head jot the other way.
    “Careful!” Maggie exclaimed as her fingers tangled in my hair.
    “Oh, sorry,” I grimaced, trying to hold still.
    “No need to apologize to me, it’s your hair that got pulled,” she clucked, hands busy again.  “He obviously cares for you a great deal if he came all this way as soon as he heard you’d split with Bishop,” she ventured. 
    “That’s sort of the problem.  He’s always been so… intense about his feelings for me.”
    “And you don’t feel the same?”
    “I don’t know what I feel right now,” I admitted freely.  “I’m all jumbled up inside between the way things ended with Bishop and coming home.  I can’t help but feel like I’m not ready to start something with Jake yet.”
    “Then why are you going out with him?”
    “Good question.”  I met her gaze in the mirror.  On some level I must have wanted to see him again because I could have just as easily sent him on his way.  “I don’t know.  Does that make me a bad person?”
    “I don’t think you’re a bad person at all,” she smiled warmly.  “Everybody deserves a spot of happiness, especially you.”
    “What if I’m leading him on?  What if I can never be happy with him?  What if Bishop’s the only man I’ll ever love and he’s gone forever?”
    “Forever would be a very long time if you truly believed that.”
    I couldn’t live my life for forever, it was too depressing.  “There is no forever,” I murmured, remembering something Carter had said to me once.  The hunter had the right of it, immortality didn’t automatically mean longevity for any