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I’m just saying, considering
all the douche bag humans you’ve dated, give the guy a chance.”
    “It’s just…”
Molly lowered her voice, as one old woman on the table next to them still
seemed to be listening avidly. “It seems crazy. He turned into a cat right in
front of my eyes.”
    Lil laughed. “I
wish you could see the look on your face right now. Well, you know how you
always said you thought there was more to the world? There is. And you’ve got a
chance to experience it. And hey. You always said you didn’t think there was a
man left in this world you could get along with.”
    Molly huffed. “I was joking.”
    The grin crept
slowly along Lil’s face. “Even so. Cade’s not from this world. Not even close.”

 
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Four
     
    On the short walk
home, Molly deliberately dawdled to give herself time to take in all that had
been said. Her friend was a bonafide voodoo woman, or something like it. Her
new pet cat was actually a shape shifter.
    And maybe her new
lover. For life.
    If indeed, she
wanted him.
    She shook the
thought off, by turns amused by the scope of it, and disgusted with herself for
even considering it.
    Remembering how
it felt to be touched by him, she shivered with delight. She longed to give him
a test drive, but that would be lethal.
    Once you sleep with him, he’s yours forever.
    Sending him away
meant he waited another hundred years to try and live in the human world again.
But waiting too long meant he also had to spend another century in the Faewild.
    The human world.
She felt like laughing out loud. There
are beings other than humans out there.
    She still didn’t
know if she truly believed it.
    Lil’s right, though. She decided to spend time picking up some
groceries—bread, fresh pasta, sauce, some leafy greens. My luck with men is poor at best. And Cade has chosen me from all the
women on Earth he could have had. Why shouldn’t I give him a chance?
    How much worse
than a normal relationship could it be? At worst, it was sort of a supernatural
arranged marriage.
    She’d have to
talk to Cade tonight. See how he felt about this – even though he’d chosen her,
he might feel differently after the way she had reacted to him.
    Thinking about
it, and wanting to be able to concentrate on his face and not his incredibly
endowed body, she ducked into a discount men’s clothing store, and with a
careful eye, picked out a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, in a size she hoped
would decently fit him.
    Bags in hand, she
let herself into her apartment.
    As she’d hoped he
would be, Cade sat curled up on the couch, tail wrapped around himself. She
knelt by the couch and stroked a hand along his back. His green eyes snapped
open, as if to say you’re home.
    “Cade,” she told
him, stroking the soft scruff of his neck, “We need to talk. I want you to
change. Please.”
    She stood back,
and no sooner were her feet on the floor than Cade stood before her.
Thoughtfully, he quickly grabbed the tea towel on the side of the couch and
covered himself.
    “No need for
that.” Molly handed him the grocery bag. “I got you, some, ah, human clothes. You
can go put them on. It should be self explanatory.”
    “Thank you.”
Gratitude etched itself all over his face. “I will put them on.”
    “I’ll leave you
to it.” In the kitchen area, with her back to him, Molly stowed groceries and
tried not to imagine him naked.
    And failed.
    “I am ready,” he
called out.
    Molly turned
around, and stifled a laugh. He had the t-shirt on backwards. In that moment,
he looked so adorable that she knew, no matter what he said, that she’d give
him a chance.
    How can I not?
    She bit down on
her lip at his confused expression, trying to keep it in, but it just wouldn’t
be silenced. Laughter streamed from her, so hard she had to hold her stomach.
    The utter
confusion on his face made the situation that much more hilarious.
    “What is so
humorous?” he asked, blankly, and in that