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darlin’, but you really did see what you thought you saw.” He touched her face softly but shook his head as a grin formed on his lips. “Well, except for the seven-year-old. That was actually a pixie assassin, and unfortunately she’ll recover from that and come after you again. Of course, that’s if she can find us. I think she got lucky at my place, but I destroyed your cell phone just in case she was using modern technology to track you.”
    “A pixie assassin?” Her voice was way higher in pitch than she liked—and she’d get to the part about her destroyed cell phone in a moment—but pixie assassins? He was joking, right? “Aren’t pixies supposed to be cute and nice and… not assassins and…I don’t know…not real?”
    “Sorry to disappoint you, but despite their positive—and very much undeserved—reputations, pixies aren’t nice, aren’t cute, and really do assassinate people. Well, they usually stick to paranormal-type people to assassinate, but I can assure you they are very real.”
    “Oh,” Kali said as her headache throbbed just a little more. Maybe she wasn’t the only crazy one in this room.
    “Now fire demons, on the other hand,” Alex continued, “have a bad reputation, yet we’ve never done anything to deserve it. I mean, yeah, we can incinerate anything we want to with our bare hands, but it’s not like we go around doing it all the time. And hey, what’s with the Halloween BS? I don’t look like a guy with red skin, yellow horns, and a tail, do I?”
    She shook her head and wondered how long she was going to get to stay in crazy-land.
    “You still going on about needing a better publicist?” Ronan said as he strode back into the room. He didn’t seem the least bit affected by whatever had knocked him on his ass a few minutes ago. Lucky bastard. Although, if Kali were honest with herself, she’d admit that she was staying in Alex’s arms more for her own reasons now. The headache wasn’t nearly as bad as it had been, and the nausea was mostly gone. But she snuggled just a little closer when she saw jealousy flash across Ronan’s features. It lasted but a moment, yet she knew exactly what she’d seen.
    Served him right. One disastrous date and pity sex five months ago didn’t mean they were involved. It didn’t even make them friends.
    The saddest part about that was she’d been the one on the receiving end of the pity sex. Pathetic. Sad and pathetic and something she’d never wanted to be reminded of. She made a mental note to smack her big brother upside the head next time she saw him. It was all his fault after all. He’d set up the date. He’d introduced them. He and his wife had left her alone with the man. He…Okay, her brother hadn’t suggested she ask Ronan to take her to bed in a pathetically weak and drunken moment, but he was to blame for the rest of the mess.
    Ronan watched her with eyes that saw way more than she wanted him to see and then seemed to shake himself and get back on topic. “Are we safe here?” he asked Alex.
    “I would suggest one more slip.” Kali actually shuddered at the thought. She might not believe her eyes or her ears at the moment, but there was no way she wanted to experience again whatever it was that had caused the nausea. Alex pulled her closer and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. “But since neither of you seem up to it, we should probably take your car. We can head for the safe house. It shouldn’t have been compromised.”
    “Did you learn any news from your squad?”
    “I did,” Alex said with a nod as he pulled her closer. Somehow that didn’t make her feel any better.
    “Okay,” Ronan said as he headed out into what seemed to be a hallway, “we move out in five minutes. Grab whatever you think we might need. I’ll be back in a minute.”
    Kali didn’t quite know what to do. Even when they’d been at her home the only thing she’d thought to pack was technology. But if they were tracking her by