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conservation, sorry.”
    Of course, they would, which meant that, at some point, I was going to need to take a ride over there to make sure that they weren’t somehow dangerous. I didn’t think they were, but in a situation like this, thinking something was safe wasn’t going to be enough. Knowing that there was only so much more I could do here, I started back toward the car, stopping at each person who had seen what happened and suggesting to each of them that they shouldn’t mention it too much. A faint push of embarrassment into each of them, and suddenly, they weren’t going to be comfortable talking it over with strangers.
    I started making a mental list of the things I needed to do for this case. I needed to see the paperwork for the dig. I needed to look at other, more specialized paperwork, to make sure it wasn’t impinging on anything magical. I needed to talk to Nina, the girl in the hospital. I needed to see the artifacts they’d pulled out of the soil.
    I called Niall while David started to drive me back toward Edinburgh.
    “Hello, Elle, finished already?”
    “Barely beginning,” I said.
    “So, if I were to suggest that you came back so that we could finish what we didn’t start in that stationery cupboard of yours…”
    I groaned in anticipation of the prospect. “I’d say yes, so you shouldn’t ask.”
    “Of course, I should ask,” Niall said, and I could imagine the look on his face then. I wanted him. Of course, I did. I always did.
    “There isn’t enough time.”
    “There is always time for us, Elle. We have forever.”
    When he put it like that, it was hard to resist. I managed though, barely. “Tonight. Right now, I want to get on with this gig for the coven, okay?”
    “All right, but be careful.”
    I smiled at that. “I thought you agreed that this was a good idea?”
    “A good distraction from your research into your mother’s death, I believe I said. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be careful, especially if I have to wait until tonight for your touch.”
     
     
     

     
     
    The night came and went, with Niall beside me, touching me, kissing me. It seemed so impossible sometimes that I could ever have lived my life without him before, that I could ever have not had this in my life and yet, still believe that I was happy.
    “What are your plans for the day?” he asked the next morning, stroking a finger down the naked flesh of my back.
    “You’re just hoping that I can spend the day in bed with you, aren’t you?”
    Niall smiled before placing a delicate kiss in the small of my back. “The thought had occurred to me.”
    I laughed. “I wish I could, but I have a bunch of old pottery to look into.”
    “It doesn’t sound like nearly as much fun.”
    I shook my head. “No, it doesn’t.”
    I got up and dressed in yesterday’s clothes, loving the way Niall watched me while I did it. But I’d learned to have a certain amount of immunity when it came to that look. If I hadn’t, then neither of us would have ever left his bedroom. Not that I suspected Niall would have minded. I headed home briefly, wanting to change, and found Siobhan waiting for me. That was no big deal. After all, she probably spent more time than I did at my house these days, since she was staying with me and I…well, I was mostly staying over at Niall’s place.
    “I thought you’d be at the office,” I said to her.
    She shrugged. “I went in. I’m just not feeling great.”
    “The baby?”
    Siobhan nodded, not looking exactly happy about it. The realities of impending motherhood were being made a little more complicated by things like the impossibility of going to a hospital for checkups.
    “Could we…could we maybe go shopping at some point?” she suggested. “Marie and Kelly have been going through baby books with me, and there are all kinds of things we don’t have. A crib, and a changing table and…it’s all so complicated for humans.”
    I didn’t ask how goblins did