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Jillian grinned, brushed a stray hair off her cheek and tucked it behind her ear.
    Suddenly I felt the air shift and I knew Max had arrived. I leapt in front of him just as Jillian started to shoot a fireball at him. “ No !” I shouted and Max flashed us across the room. “Stop Jillian!” I called as another fireball came at us and Max flashed us back to the other side of the room.
    “Release him! Or so help me bejeasus I’ll hunt ye down and kill ye where ye feckin’ stand!” Jillian said aiming carefully.
    “I’m not a threat! Tell her for Goddess sake, Tones! Geez!” Max shouted.
    Nicu ran into the room then and saw what was going on. “Jillian, stand down. He isn’t a threat, he’s…on our side.”
    Jillian warily put her hands down, but I could tell she was ready to do battle the second Max made a move.
    Max turned to look at me. “Who’s the she-devil?”
    I grinned. “Max, meet Jillian, a Guardian. She helps protect the park from the Unseelie.”
    “Ye mean demons, like him,” Jillian spat.
    I turned back to Jillian with a glare. “Max is hardly a nightmare or a demon. He’s a Fae Prince, he is of the Light.”
    “He’s no angel! He’s jest like the others. He’s manipulatin’ ye ta believe he’s good. Let me kill him!”
    “ No ! No Jillian, you’re wrong. Max, show her. Show her what else you are.”
    Max shifted and became a jaguar.
    And Jillian fainted.
    “Well, damn,” I said, and picked Jillian up off the floor, carried her into my room and laid her down on my bed. “Max, maybe you better leave the room. I’ll explain things to her, and then you can come back.”
    “Sure. I’ll just wait in the living room.” Max turned back into Fae and left the room.
    I slipped into the bathroom and grabbed a washcloth. I ran some cool water over it and returned to Jillian, laying it across her forehead. “Jillian. Jillian, wake up.”
    Jillian’s eyes fluttered and I noticed her emerald eyes coming back into focus. “Well? What the bloody hell was that?”
    “Jaguar. Max is also a shifter.”
    “A what?” she asked, looking at me like I was out of my mind.
    “A shifter, not a demon.”
    “Ye only think he isn’t a demon. Ye don’t know it fer a fact, do ye?”
    “Yes, I do, Jillian. Max has been my best friend for almost ten years, and he’s not a demon. What we fight aren’t even demons, though they look and act like demons. They are really the Dark Fae, the Unseelie. The Light Fae, the ones like Max, have been fighting the Dark Fae for hundreds of years. The Light Fae are also trying to protect the humans from the Dark.”
    “Ye’re talkin’ Fairy Tales.”
    “No, I am talking Faerie tales. Not the Brothers Grimm. I’m talking about what we are really fighting. Max is here to help. Uncle Nicu said that there have been more Dark Fae in the park lately, and all over Manhattan. That they are organized and looking for something. Max may know what it is.”
    “Faerie. Pure?”
    “No lie.”
    “Not demons,” Jillian said as she sat up. “Faeries. Feckin’ Faeries. So, all of the stories…true?”
    “Well, I don’t know all the stories, but I’m sure most probably are.”
    “Ye said yer…friend was a Fae prince…of the Light. So, who’s his father?”
    “Oh, his father is Alan Fergus. Nobody you’d ever have heard of. Max’s great-grandfather is Auberon, King of Light and Illusion. Anyway, he has some information for us. Are you…you’re not gonna try and kill him again, are you?”
    Jillian smiled sweetly and I knew her mind was working out how she could kill him without pissing me off. “No, not roi’t now.”
    “I guess that will have to do.” I turned toward the door and called to Max. “Hey, Dude! You can come in now. She’s chill.”
    Max and Nicu cautiously reentered the room.
    “It is a pleasure to meet a Sorceress as powerful as you, Miss O’Neil,” Max said formally, not sounding like himself at all, but more like the diplomat and leader he