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in his child’s mind. But now, twenty years later, it made perfect sense. His dad hadn’t wanted to pollute the purity of the mountain.
    Scarlata’s brows drew together for one brief second before he continued asking,
    “How long have you lived here on this mountain?”
    He wasn’t sure she was going to answer until she took a deep breath. “I came to America over two hundred years ago. This mountain has been my home since then, for the most part. However, the more people come to the mountain, the more I tend to retreat to the shadows, those places where humans aren’t likely to go.”
    “Are there others like you who live here? Others that my dad might have seen. Or met?” Had his father had an encounter with another folletta like the one he’d just had?
    That would certainly explain why his parents’ marriage had fallen apart.
    Scarlata looked away but she blinked and he had his answer.
    “There are, aren’t there?” Even he could hear the wonder in his voice. “Others like you.”
    She shook her head but didn’t answer. Then again, she didn’t need to.
    He wanted to pump his fist in victory but couldn’t seem to rouse the energy. Plus, he didn’t want to scare her. Whatever mojo she’d thrown at him earlier had stuck, at least for a little while. He didn’t want to find out what else she could do to him.
    “A lot more?” he asked.
    She shrugged, the movement causing her naked breasts to jiggle and his cock to leap to attention. Down, boy.
    Damn, he needed to get a grip. He’d never been this horny before. Then again, he’d never met the embodiment of his wet dreams before.
    “I do not know what you would consider a lot,” she replied.
    Rising, she gathered their plates and glasses and turned to place them in the sink.
    She stood there for several seconds, staring out the small window.
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    As he watched, she curled and tucked her wings against her back until they disappeared under her waist-length hair. If she put on clothes—which he hoped she never decided to do—you wouldn’t realize they were there.
    Did she ever leave this forest? If she did, where did she go? How had she gotten from Italy to America two hundred years ago? Did she live in a little house out there in the woods? In the trees? What about the other Fata she’d talked about? Did they have a little village out there somewhere? What about the Enu she’d mentioned?
    So many questions. And yet he was so freaking excited.
    His dad had been right.
    But that brought up another question. If his dad had known about these beings all along, then who else knew?
    Fear gathered like a tight ache in his chest. Only the fear wasn’t for himself.
    It was for her.

    Scarlata knew he watched her as she washed their dirty dishes with the little sponge by the sink.
    Though she’d not lived around eteri for a very long time, she did know they didn’t leave their dishes sitting around and the menial chore gave her a chance to think. She took her time, soaping each item thoroughly then rinsing them with the same care.
    She had planned to have sex with Justin again, enough sex to power a spell that she would use to wipe his memories of their time together.
    Though she’d believed she could take his life when this night had first started, she no longer thought she could. The man was too…alive. She couldn’t bring herself to take that life.
    Still, he couldn’t leave here with knowledge of her. It went against everything her parents had taught her. Of course they hadn’t taken their own advice and they’d been killed in the Purge by the barbarian villagers who’d once called themselves their 36

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    friends. After their deaths, she’d turned her back on her homeland and moved here to start fresh.
    She’d tried to blend at first. To live among the eteri . But their greed and sloth and the filth of their cities had caused her to retreat farther into the woods. Instead of hiding among the eteri , now she hid