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am.”
     
    “You forget I don’t care.”
     
    They stared at each other a long
time, Donovan refusing to give in. No one would intimidate him under any
circumstances. Realizing Donovan would stare all night if need be, his partner
retreated for the time being. “Fine. I will wait to hear from you. Don’t let me
down.”
     
    With his visitor’s exit the
darkness faded from the room, and Donovan breathed a sigh of relief. Now for
planning his next move.
     

Chapter Five
     
    “So what do you plan to do about
Donovan?” Mitzi asked Kai.
     
    Kai shrugged. “I’m letting him
stew a little.” She grinned. “He called me last night after I got home. Don’t
look at me like that. I know, and I didn’t give him my phone number. That
worries me. My number isn’t listed.”
     
    Mitzi held up a blouse with
feathery fluff around the collar. Kai didn’t know why the girl dragged her to
the mall. Mitzi had no sense of style, and when Kai tried to help, Mitzi ended
up not buying a thing. She wore the same old bland black clothes, which managed
to wash out her pale features. What Mitzi lacked in style, she made up for in
spunk. “What does it matter? You can’t even get a call into your house if it’s
from evil meaning you harm.”
     
    Kai laughed and shook her head.
“No, sweetie, that blouse would make your head look small. I know, but I can’t
be too careful. Ove’s witch friend may have cast a
protection spell around my mother’s house, but that doesn’t mean something out
there isn’t more powerful.”
     
    “Your father knows better than
that, I’m sure.”
     
    “Yeah well . . .”
     
    “So what did you two talk about?”
Mitzi’s yellow eyes were almost round. “Did you have phone sex?”
     
    Kai grinned. “I’m not telling.
Okay, yeah we did. It’s not really my thing, but I wanted to work him up, get
him all hard and ready. Turns out he had me flying. And then my mother bangs on
the bathroom door to find out why I was screaming.”
     
    Mitzi’s face pinked. “That’s so
wrong.”
     
    “Yeah it was.” Kai burst out
laughing. “Okay, you know me. I have zero respect for men. How can I help it
with a father like Ove ? But Donovan might be—and I do
mean might be so don’t get excited—he might be a little more than expected.
I’ll wait and see, and I’m not holding my breath on it.”
     
    “So you’ll blame Ove for the rest of your life, never find true love. You’ll
die an old maid with no children, no one to carry on your legacy.”
     
    “Spare me. Die? And further more,
I don’t want kids. I don’t want love. I want sex—wild hot sex.”
     
    Something from the corner of
Kai’s eye caught her attention. She turned to find Bevin fighting with some
type of being. Its black skin was so dark, it almost glistened. A dark elf if
she didn’t miss her guess. Glancing around the store they were in, she noted
that the humans were all still occupied with their shopping. Two of them were
chitchatting right next to the fight, oblivious of what was happening on
another dimension, one Kai had always been able to see into being half demon.
There her abilities were limited. She couldn’t be sure of anything when the
person was fully in the physical realm, which made her depend on Mitzi and
Bevin to spot immortals.
     
    Mitzi spun around too and caught
the fight. She rolled her eyes. “Guess we better go. Another idiot who wants to
get to your father through you.” She crooked an arm through Kai’s. “How about
ice cream?”
     
    Kai didn’t take her eyes off her
bodyguard. He had transformed to his natural body, crimson skin, glowing red
eyes and a long pointed tail with matching horns. The elf cast a freeze spell
on Bevin who shook the ice off like it was nothing. He blew fire at his
opponent’s head, and the elf yelped in pain.
     
    “We can’t leave poor Bevin.” She
chuckled. “Besides, he—”
     
    Mitzi jerked her sideways, and
she fell on the floor. Kai was aware of