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was a line at the reservation desk, Deana sat Lorgin down in a chair outside the ladies room, and went in to splash some water on her face. She was pattingher cheeks with a paper towel when Lori, an old convention acquaintance, walked in.
    “Deana? Is that you? Wow, you look great! What did you do to yourself?”
    Deana stared at her reflection in the mirror. Hey, she did look great! No, great wasn’t it; she looked… beautiful. Her hair, always an auburn red, now looked somehow deeper, almost garnet, and it was absolutely luminous. Her features were the same, but in some undefined way, better. Her eyes, usually a drab gray, sparkled like crystals. Her light, rather dull skin tone glowed with a pinkish blush. Even her body felt slightly fuller and rounder. It was a magical transformation…
    Magic!
    She stormed out of the bathroom, leaving Lori talking to the wall. Leaning over Lorgin, she placed her hands on the arms of his chair and glared down at him.
    “What did you do to me?” she demanded.
    He looked up at her, eyes half closed. “What do you mean?” he asked lazily.
    “When did you make me look like this?”
    Lorgin reached up and smoothed back a lock of silky hair which had escaped her braid. “You have always looked like this, Little Fire.” His voice was husky as his hand came up and cupped the back of her head. He bent forward, knowing his eyes were beginning to spark. She was a most pleasing prickly gharta.
    With a great effort, Deana twisted free of his hold. “You didn’t put some spell on me?”
    “I do not do spells. Only a sixth—”
    “Don’t start that business again. Why do I look like this?”
    He looked genuinely perplexed. “You have always looked thus.”
    She pondered that statement. Perhaps to him. Butsomething had happened to her. Obviously, Lorgin knew nothing about it, so she’d have to wait for an answer. Noticing that the line had thinned at the desk, she told Lorgin she was going to check them in.
    Lorgin’s heated amethyst gaze followed her to the desk. In truth, he had wanted to take her from the moment he had first seen her. Now he suspected it was something more. Much more. Of course, this he would know later, when he tasted of her.
    Deana looked around the lobby, noting the indoor waterfalls, marble floors, and lush plants. It was beautiful. Getting a copy of the reservation confirmation out of her purse to give to the desk clerk, she briefly thought of getting two rooms, but the cost of even one room in this palace for the week was exorbitant. She also was afraid that if she got separate rooms, she’d wake up to find Lorgin sitting in the hallway in front of her door, guarding her from Darth Microwave.
    The woman behind the desk scanned the form and punched her name into the computer. “So, that’s one room.” The clerk glanced at Lorgin. “King-size bed—”
    “No! Two double beds.”
    The woman looked over at Lorgin again, her eyes traveling the impressive length of him as she raised her eyebrows. She leaned forward, whispering to Deana. “Are you sure, girlfriend? I’d take the king and tell him that’s all we had left.”
    “You don’t understand.” She sighed. “The doubles will be—”
    “ We will take the king bed. ”
    Deana turned around to Lorgin open-mouthed.
    “Am I not a Knight of the Charl and therefore entitled to sleep in a king’s bed? I will take no other.” He swept his hand through the air, as if to finalize it.
    The woman behind the counter shook her head and tittered.“I don’t know what he said, but if I were you, I’d go with the flow.”
    So, here she was in a lovely hotel room, sitting on a kingsized bed in her short cotton nightgown, going with the flow. Lorgin was in the bathroom taking a bath.
    She looked down at the bed.
    It was certainly wide enough for the two of them. She hoped he wouldn’t get any ideas. No, that wasn’t true. She hoped he’d get a lot of ideas, just not act on any of them. She didn’t think she