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possessive over Sophie? She was trying to get him drunk,
after all. That meant something was going on in her devious, highly intelligent mind.
    Kevyn scolded himself to get back on track and moved closer, so he could see Sophie
while he listened to the two Hunters.
    "She has pretty strong potential. If it drew us off track, imagine what she could do as a
Changeling?" Larry mused. He cocked his head to one side and frowned as he studied Sophie,
who sat totally unaware of her Fae watchers, sipping wine and making notes in her notepad.
Kevyn made a mental note to check that notepad the first chance he got.
    "We could get a reward from the Council, if we do," the Hunter continued after a few
more seconds of study.
    "And they could also chew us out for wasting their time. Training Changelings is too
much work. It's more fun to see what diluted Fae blood does in the Human world when people
don't know they can work magic." Curly snickered.
    Kevyn seriously considered breaking his cover to pop him a good one, right in the
chops.
    But that would mean having to run, and he wanted--no, needed--to spend more time
with Sophie. Whatever she did, he knew he could extricate himself before he got into
trouble.
    Besides, as long as he stuck with Sophie, the Hunters would stay away. They would feel
power emanations and assume, wrongly, that they only sensed another powerful Halfling. They
wouldn't dream that a Fae on the run might use her as a shield.
    * * * *
    When Kevyn's coffee came to the table, Sophie poured some diet cherry cola into the
cup, and most of the carafe into the sealed coffee pitcher. That had to have some effect on him,
right?
    Too bad The Book hadn't told her how much it would take.
    Kevyn returned in a cheerful mood. A little too cheerful, Sophie thought. Then again,
her conscience prickled, and that might have affected how she viewed everything.
    It definitely caused her to hallucinate. She heard two men talking right in front of the
table, but couldn't see them. And though their voices were muffled and they spoke in another
language, she had the strangest feeling they were talking about her.
    For all she knew, they were ghosts. If Fae were real, just like Great-aunt Serena had
always proclaimed, then ghosts could be, too.
    That wasn't a very nice thought. She had seen The Sixth Sense and for three
months, every time a chill breeze touched her, she looked around for evidence of ghostly
activity.
    Which made no sense, because at the time she didn't believe.
    Sophie wasn't quite sure what she believed anymore.
    "You are so pretty," Kevyn muttered. He tipped back his cup of coffee, put the cup
down so it clanked against the saucer, and rested his chin in his hand while he studied her with
bleary eyes. "You are the prettiest girl at the entire convention."
    Which proved what she had just been thinking. She couldn't believe in anything.
Nothing she depended on was reliable anymore.
    "Who ever said skinny was pretty? I like soft girls. Curvy girls." He stroked one
fingertip down her arm, giving her shivers that made her warm and gooey inside. "Like
you."
    Well, if she was looking for a sign that he was drunk, this was probably it.
    "So, you like fat girls?"
    "Nope." His elbow slid a few inches forward, and Kevyn leaned closer to her. "You're
special, Sophie. You have no idea how special you are."
    "I know exactly how special I am." Her eyes stung and she looked into Kevyn's eyes and
cursed herself for being so clever she was stupid. The first guy who spent time with her without
some ulterior motive or to win some moronic, testosterone-induced bet, and she had to ruin
things by getting him drunk.
    Drunk on diet cherry cola? Who ever heard such a thing?
    Maybe the Fae weren't really magic--they were just mutants. Aliens, maybe. Sophie
wondered what would happen if she went to the doctoral board and said she had proof that Earth
had been visited by aliens, and they left their rejects and merged them with the Human genome
to cause