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long practice. She poured coffee and mixed in her cream and sugar before working on assembling her breakfast. The scrambled eggs smelled heavenly and she loaded her plate. The bacon was next with the muffins perching precariously on the edge of her plate.
    “You can fill up more than once, Eileen.” Teebie sat and poured some coffee for herself.
    “I know, but that article in that book was right. I do eat more than someone my size should. I burn it off in the shifts, or it could be my constant exposure to fey magic. All I know is my meals are large and regular.”
    “You each slept in your own room. Well done, Eileen.”
    Eileen was honest. “That was his doing, not mine. I would have jumped him in an instant. Getting a man who doesn’t flinch at my touch into bed isn’t an obsession, it’s a goal.”
    Teebie grinned. “Good for him. You deserve a proper courtship.”
    Harris came into the dining room. “I certainly think so. She deserves far more than I can offer her, but I will do my best.”
    Eileen tilted her cheek toward him as he came in for a quick kiss, but her mouth was busy with bacon.
    He sighed after the kiss and took his seat. “I see you are eating again, so I will table a proper kiss until you are done.”
    She smiled at him with food-puffed cheeks.
    Teebie was snickering quietly, and she kept everything topped up as another couple joined them and then another. Apparently, it was a full house the previous night.
    Eileen pressed her knee to Harris’s and she continued the contact while the others tried to involve them in conversation. Eileen had the excuse of always having food in her mouth.
    Teebie filled in most of the answers as to who she was and how long she had been in the Crossroads.
    Harris also pitched in while Eileen stuffed her face.
    When the plate was clean and more bacon had been applied orally, she sat back and sipped at her coffee. “That feels better.”
    One of the young women who looked very familiar asked her, “What was your last name again, Eileen?”
    “Heller. I am Eileen Heller. Why?”
    “My cousin’s family had a girl named Eileen. She was their daughter and disappeared when she was seven. The odd thing was that the pack never looked for her.”
    Eileen looked at her young cousin and smiled. “Yes, that’s me.”
    The girl suddenly went from curious to shocked. “I never thought to see you in person. I wish I could talk to your family and ask them what they would like to say.”
    Eileen shrugged. “It doesn’t matter. I send them holiday cards every year and my address hasn’t changed in twenty years. They know where I am if they needed me. They haven’t, so I am tired of waiting.”
    The woman wouldn’t give it up. “I heard they traded you to the elves when you were a child.”
    “Oh, like in the old days of the fairies stealing babies? No. They wanted a certain outcome from the fey magic, and when it didn’t happen, the pack leader ordered them home without me. I was left behind like ugly luggage.”
    The woman was shocked. “They couldn’t have. It is against pack principle.”
    “It was under the orders of the alpha. I was born a coyote who turned into a badger in front of witnesses. I had to be removed from the pack. I was dangerous.”
    She blinked. “I didn’t know.”
    “Now you do. They tried to use binding magic on me to make me back into a coyote. It was never in the cards.”
    The young woman nodded and clung to her new mate.
    “Congratulations to all who have made matches at the Crossroads. Tell your friends or those who seem to live forever as a single.” She smiled and looked to Harris. He was done with his breakfast so she got up and he stood up with her.
    Teebie ran off and returned with a huge wicker basket.
    Harris took it with a polite thank you and they were off for a day with nature and snacks.
    Eileen waved at Teebie and took Harris’s arm as they left the Open Heart and walked down the steps toward the centre of town.
    Harris