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invisible to all the humans. I mean, think about it, if I showed myself this woman wouldn't be able to stop from salivating. I think she still has a little something on her lips from your 'friend'. If I showed up, she'd probably be a puddle on the floor."
    And damned if he didn't actually use air quotes when he said friend. It was amazing how some magical beings acted more human than magical. Well, besides the fact that he was actually invisible right now.
    I bit my lip and turned toward Mrs. Coventry. If she wasn't a new resident of Salem, I would've told her who Jake actually was, but there's no way she would know the name. "We go way back. It's nice to have him here."
    The woman gave me a lopsided smile. "I bet."
    When Mrs. Coventry walked away, the fae clawed the air in front of him. "I thought she was going to go all lioness on you."
    Half listening to him, I said, "No, she's human."
    He waved his hand in front of my face. "Thank you, Captain Obvious. I'm talking about her claws, as in she'd probably claw your face off trying to get him before you."
    "Why do you care about this? Why are we even talking?"
    The fae's humor died on his face along with his smile. "I'm here on fae business."
    I crossed my arms over my chest. "Great. Good for you. Can we maybe conduct fae business when I am not at my own business looking like I'm talking to myself?"
    "This is the only place Damen told me I could port to you at. If you'd like to tell me where you live..."
    "Oh hell no. Here's fine. Come into my office with me."
    I put out the Be Right Back sign and walked toward the corner of the room where the Library Office was. I barely used it. I was usually at the information desk or in the stacks. We couldn't afford the luxury of having more than one librarian at the front desk on a shift so I usually didn't get much time in there.
    Kicking the door closed behind us, a hand intercepted it. "Where are you--?" Jake jumped in front of me and spun on the fae. "Your purpose, faerie?" he growled.
    The fae rolled his eyes. "Oh please. Does that usually work for you?"
    "Sometimes, but I know what will definitely work." Jake cocked his wrist. An iron swing blade slid from a cuff on his wrist just like he showed me earlier. It was pretty badass.
    The fae's gaze narrowed in on it. "I mean her no harm."
    I nudged Jake aside. "This is the fae who gave me the message from Damen yesterday. Now he says he's here on official fae business."
    The fae nodded in my direction as if he approved of my message. "My clan leader sent me. He told me he heard from the Salem Clan that one of their fae was taken out yesterday by a blade that sounded suspiciously like the one you cut me with yesterday."
    This, he addressed at me. In truth, he was right. I had cut him and killed the other fae. "Extreme times call for extreme measures. Know that I didn't do it lightly and that there was cause for it."
    "Cause being?"
    Jake's body clenched for a fight. "I'm not in the habit of being spoken to in this manner by a fae."
    The fae's emerald green eyes danced. He was loving every second of this. "I guess it's a good thing that I wasn't talking to you then was it?"
    Jake stepped forward, but I grabbed his shoulder. "Calm down. I can handle myself." I turned toward the smirking fae. "Listen, I know Eddie. I know he wasn't himself. We were just going to trap him until we could get help, but then he tried to shoot me with a blow gun and well, that just kind of left me with a bad taste in my mouth."
    The fae eyed me skeptically. "What do you mean wasn't acting himself?"
    I cast a wary glance toward Jake. I wasn't sure how much I should reveal to the fae, but really, he'd probably noticed the change in energy around Salem too. It wasn't as if it was a secret when all magical beings pulled their power from energy.
    "Be calm for one second. Can you feel something different in the air?"
    He looked at me quizzically, but then closed his eyes for a few moments. "Nothing too out of the