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vision, he saw Tessa in the same tree. At that moment, one of the Tessa-doves plummeted from the branch.
    Without thinking, Nathan dropped like a stone back to the earth. He was just in time to sweep beneath the dove. As he did, he changed, so as he skidded to rest he found the dove resting on his naked human chest. Again he’d lost his clothes. He was going to have to ask Tessa about this little issue.
    The Tessa-dove was disturbingly still. He heard the two others chirping in agitation. They joined him on the ground. One flitted over to sit next to the other, and nipped at the still bird. Just then, she came to, and Tessa snapped back into her Sidhe form. She was still atop him, but at least she had her clothes on. She shivered and made no move to rise.
    Nathan watched her, wondering what she was thinking , if she was hurt or…if their closeness brought the same thoughts to her mind it did to his. He couldn’t help it, his body responded to her close proximity. His mind responded to the idea of escape, of giving in to his primal urges, much as he had in flight.
    He reached up and stroked her hair back from her cheek, his fingers brushing her soft, pale skin. His hand came to rest softly on the back of her neck. She shivered again, but something had shifted in her eyes, from fear to hunger.
    Leaning forward slowly, so as not to startle her, he gave in to the urge to kiss her. The kiss started soft, testing the waters. She responded instantly, her hands roaming his naked chest. It was his turn to shiver as she touched him so lightly, so delicately. Did she think he was delicate? He broke the kiss to laugh, and his grip at the back of her neck changed from testing to demanding as he resumed the kiss, teasing her lips apart and plunging his tongue into her mouth. He captured her hips against his stomach, forcing her body into closer contact with his.
    She wriggled atop him, and he was surprised to find she wasn’t trying to get away, just getting more comfortable. She kissed with those sapphire eyes open, and he nearly fell into their depths. She reached for his hand, behind her head, and guided it lower, to rest on her bottom.
    His heartbeat accelerated as he tasted her, as he held her to him, feeling her body respond to him in kind.
    Was it a Sidhe thing to be so free with the sexuality?
    At this moment, Nathan could tell Tessa wanted him, though he hadn’t seen the slightest glimmer of such a response from her before now. What had changed? Or was it just that the opportunity had arisen?
    He didn’t have more time to think about it, because a clamor filled the air around them, and they pulled apart like they were on strings.
    A pixie? Nathan thought at the exact moment he saw Tessa pick up a small rock and hurl it toward the small winged creature.
    “Hey!” its voice rang in outrage. “Leave me be. Get off the naked half-human, seductress!” As it flew, it trailed sparkling pixie dust behind it.
    “You dare to speak to me like that?” Tessa seemed to gain an inch or two in height as she confronted the being a small fraction of her size.
    “I’m not here for you. I seek the half-human. The Morrigan sent me.”
    Tessa shrank before Nathan’s eyes, just as rapidly as she’d seemed to grow.
    “Who is the Morrigan?” he asked, regretting that confusion had just completely supplanted arousal at the forefront of his mind. His body, on the other hand, hadn’t completely absorbed the change in events. Lord, he needed to learn that clothes trick.
    The pixie giggled, and fluttered closer. Its face was all angles and points, almost an upside down triangle, with sharply slanted slits of eyes, and a little rosebud of a mouth. Its entire body, including its wings, was coated in the fine sparkles of pixie dust that seemed to seep from its skin. “First, let me introduce myself. My name is Season. And might I say you are quite charming, especially in the nude. Your body pleases me.”
    “What?” Nathan choked. Had a pixie