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up. It has probably been dormant for centuries. His attachment to the water was its only indicator.”
    The men looked at each other, and Rick cleared his throat. “So, any of us could have fey blood?”
    She looked them over and shook her head. “You could but you don’t. This is not a common occurrence.”
    Adam sat next to her and took her hand in his. He kissed the back of it. “We just got lucky enough to be in the same place at the same time.”
    Tim cocked his head. “Your face is familiar.”
    She grinned. “That is possible. I have a coastline boutique that might have been on a few news programs. I got tired of being stared at and left the public eye.”
    Alan gave her a sober look. “You left the chains where we could find them.”
    “I needed the boat stable for the jump. I couldn’t do it if you were shifting positions and pirates are not noted for their patience. I didn’t want to miss.”
    Tim clued in. “You have done that before?”
    She shrugged. “In the old days of privateers, a mermaid would be asked to guide and guard a ship. My cousins would occasionally ask for my help. Attacking from the air is never something that the pirates were anticipating.”
    Adam and Rick looked at each other. “What?”
    Tim described seeing Lorai swim at increasing speed and launching herself out of the water, the falling of the bodies on the other side and the disarming of the men with the spear guns, not necessarily in that order. The excitement in his voice meant that the story was going to grow grander at an alarming pace.
    She sighed and leaned against Adam. “And so another annoying story is born.”
    Tim blushed. “Sorry. It is just the coolest thing that I have ever been involved in. Pirates, treasure, mermaids. This is the stuff that dreams are made of.”
    Adam grinned. “For me too, but keep it a dream or, at least, a bar story.”
    “Only if you let me watch you swim. She was fast, but I bet you are faster.”
    Adam nodded. “Sure. Not a problem.”
    Rick asked the question that had been on his mind. “What necklace?”
    She got to her feet and smiled. “Show me your maps and I will show you where I got it. I don’t think you can get there, but I don’t have that problem.”
    They headed to the map room, and she drew the outline of the deep wreck as well as the one that had landed in shallow waters.
    The men looked at it and slouched with disappointment. She smiled. “The crevice has a ledge that caught the wreck. I just reached down and picked up some of the chains, seeding them into the shallow wreck.”
    Alan tapped the ledge on the map. “How deep is it?”
    She shrugged. “Five hundred metres? It could have been deeper.”
    “How did you find the treasure?”
    Adam smiled. “Even with my brief time under water, I can tell you; she could smell it. It is like following the scent of lilacs. It comes in your gills and swirls on your tongue. I didn’t know what it was, but now that I do, I can probably find it.”
    She held up her hand. “Most merfolk can go three hundred metres under. You might not be able to reach this wreck.”
    He shrugged. “Only one way to find out.”
    Alan scowled. “Won’t he be able to do what you do?”
    “Not really. I am fey on both sides of my family. He is only a little bit fey.” She reached up and threaded her hand in his hair, pulling it back to show the nearly human pointed ears of her mate.
    He scowled. “My ears are pointy?”
    “Just a little, dearest. Now, I believe we have that other matter to attend to.”
    During their entire conversation, the blood had begun rushing around her body until she could almost hear the pounding need of her sex.
    He turned to her, and his body tensed as she trailed her fingers down his neck. “Of course. How could I have forgotten?”
    He wrapped her in his arms and held her against him. She called out a distracted, “Please excuse us. Fey thing.”
    Adam smiled. “I am going to remember that.”
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