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crumpled. She was thinking about her own claustrophobia, he knew. He'd hit too close to home. “It seems that I'm stuck."
    "Not if you can make the right wishes. If you make them ironclad, you can protect yourself and everyone around you.” That was the theory. In practice, it had never happened.
    "You think you're pretty smart, don't you?” she demanded.
    For the first time he could remember, Jack laughed for real. His surprise was so complete, he pulled himself out of it almost instantly. “You're joking, right? I'm a demon, remember. That means I was involved in the single stupidest decision in the history of the universe. Add to that what happened today. I, a supposed Prince of Demons, was captured by two sex-deprived humans with enough talent between them to, maybe, make a coin flip heads fifty-one times out of a hundred, and I'm being held captive by a hill of salt. Oh, yes. That makes me brilliant."
    "Are you really a prince?"
    "A lot of us are. Being a prince of demons is sort of like being head of a cell block. You'd a lot rather be somewhere else."
    Sara touched her tongue to her lips, then folded her arms under her breasts. From another woman, both gestures would have been provocative, challenging. From Sara, they were exciting in the way that only innocence can excite.
    "What would you wish for?"
    He smiled bitterly. “I'm a demon. I can have anything I want."
    "Except?"
    "Except what really matters, of course."
    "That sounds depressing."
    "Try it for a few thousand years and then we'll talk depression."
    "Have you ever thought about becoming something else?"
    "That isn't possible."
    "What if I wish it?"
    "Wishes don't work that way."
    "Do you know what Katra and I were doing in our seance before you showed up?"
    "I wasn't paying attention. I was going about my business when I got sucked in like Dorothy and the Oz thing."
    "What we were doing in our seance was calling for my perfect mate."
    "Yeah? Well, make a wish and I'll yank up the best that's available right now."
    "I think it's too late for that."
    His stomach sank. He didn't like the thoughts floating on the surface of her brain.
    "What are you talking about?"
    "I think you're my perfect mate."

Chapter Three
    Katra tried to keep her heartbeat under control as she shifted her aging Chevy Corsica into gear. Her car hadn't felt so solid for years. Just additional confirmation that things were finally going right in her life. She forced herself to grin. Who would have guessed a seance could lead to this.
    The aging double-wide she shared with her mother and sister needed jacking up and a paint job. Well, they wouldn't have to worry about that. Now that she'd won the lottery, Katra figured they could move into something a little more comfortable.
    Today being her day for miracles, she even found a parking place only one door down in the trailer park—next to a shining Jaguar. Now that was definitely new. Nobody in the trailer park drove anything like that.
    Katra slammed her car door and headed for home.
    "Mom, it's me."
    "Hello, darling daughter.” Her mother met her at the door simpering. When Minnie talked like that, Katra knew she was in big trouble. In general, the only thing that kept her mother from being permanently glued to the television set was sleep.
    "Hi mom, what's up?"
    "You have someone to see you.” Minnie's sing-song voice was another giveaway. Minnie wheeled her massive body out of the way, letting Katra see who was waiting.
    Katra forced herself to look. What kind of man was Jack likely to choose? For that matter, who dated women on a demon's orders? This just might have been a bad idea after all.
    The man was gorgeous. Dressed in an unstructured linen suit over a black t-shirt, he could have stepped off the cover of GQ. His slightly long blond hair hung over his collar giving him the air of a Saxon pirate.
    "Well, hello,” the vision purred.
    She stuck her hand out and stepped forward. “I'm Katra O'Hara."
    The man looked at her