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serious. I must grant you three wishes. Please?” He got off his bed.
    My breathing had just started to calm down but the closer he got, the faster it became. “You seem anxious about it. Why do you have to grant me three wishes? Will you explode or something if you don’t?”
    Laeddin chuckled. “Maybe not explode.” He crossed his arms, and I noticed the tattoos on his wrists. “But as I said before, you’ve been my master a long time already and there is an urgency that builds within my body the longer you go without wishing for something.” He closed his eyes a moment. “It’s painful almost beyond comprehension.” His bright aqua eyes seemed to shine with the pain he’d been hiding. “That’s why I showed myself.”
    He acted guilty, like he was sorry he hadn’t resisted longer. For some reason seeing him like this made me feel guilty, too.
    “Please.” He gritted his teeth.
    “Okay. All right.” I tugged at my left wing, working to calm myself. Laeddin seemed to notice what I was doing and smiled. For some reason I was mortified and stopped. “Ugh. How about my wings? Can you get rid of them?” I asked, embarrassed.
    Laeddin seemed deeply surprised. “Why would you want th at?” He touched the same spot on my wings as I had only moments before. “They’re beautiful.”
    “ Why does everyone say that?” I stomped over to the bench at the end of his bed, sitting furiously. “They might look pretty and they are fun to use when I’m flying but… there’s no one else like me.” That was the part that hurt the most. Sure there were plenty of other vampires. But I was the only one with wings. “Because of these,” I stretched out my wings to their fullest. “I’m not allowed go into the human world at all. No movies. No high school. No… ugh! Living.”
    Laeddin’s eyes beamed as understanding flashed through them. “So you want to go into the human world, live like a human girl?”
    “Yes.” I clapped. “Is that a wish you can grant?”
    He took my hands. “Yes, by Allah, it is.”
    I jumped up , excited. “Okay. I like it.” An image of my mom and what she would do when she found out flashed across my mind. “But what about my parents? Can they stop my wish? Can they make it so I have to come back?”
    Laeddin nodded. “It’s possible.”
    All the joy left my body.
    Laeddin noticed and took my hands. “If you’re specific, you’ll be fine.”
    I thought about what I believed living in the human world meant. There should be parties, trips to the local mall, good times at the movies, and hanging out at a friend’s house. “How should I word it?” I asked, coming to stand near him. His scent was consuming, scrumptiously intense.
    “ I can’t tell you exactly what to say.”
    My face fell. “Give me a suggestion, then. Sheesh!”
    “My suggestion, ” he paused and chuckled. “Would be to word it like: I wish to go to high school in the human world without my wings showing and without my parents being able to bring me back to Sharra. Or something like that.” Laeddin stepped away and went over to a small table where a bowl of fresh fruit appeared. He took a purple grape and tossed it in his mouth.
    I started to pace, thinking about exactly how to word my wish. When I felt like I knew, I said, “I’m ready.”
    Laeddin swallowed the food in his mouth and cleared his throat. “Then I am too.”
    I grinned. “Laeddin, I wish to go to high school in the human world and live like a regular teenage girl without my wings and without my parents being mad or being able to stop me.” I paused. “Is that good?”
    He thought it over a moment. “That works.”
    “Yay! So what happens now?”
    “Now comes the magic.” He clapped his hands together once . The black tattoos circling his wrists suddenly glistened the color of sunny gold. When they stopped my wings vanished.
    “Oh, wow. That was fast.” There was a quick pang of loss. They’d been part of me almost sixteen