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I swear, if he keeps doing that I might purr like a kitten. Don’t think about that right now, just concentrate!

“Please!” I say through gritted teeth, closing my eyes and balling my hands into fists.

He is out of the bathroom in seconds, but I don’t have much time to wonder about where he has gone because he is back almost instantly. Carrying with him a full glass of what suspiciously smells like cognac, he offers it to me, saying, “Drink this. It will help you relax, and then you should have some hope of retracting them. They won’t go back in if you’re panicking. I’ll go speak to Russell, and then I’ll be back.”

A second later, Reed is gone again, and I hear him speaking to Russell in the foyer below. Shortly after that, he leads Russell toward the library. Since I don’t have time to waste on savoring my cognac, I gulp it down in one long swallow, and then I almost die. I cough and wheeze and can only breathe shallowly for a couple of minutes.

Reed tries to suppress a laugh as he enters the bathroom again. “Evie, I will never be bored with you around. Did you just drink that whole glass?” he asks me, smirking.

“Yes. Now, show me how to make my wings go back in,” I say, while wiping tears from my eyes that have nothing to do with emotion and everything to do with the cognac I just ingested.

“You have to calm down…relax,” Reed whispers as he leans close to my ear, tickling it with his breath.

“How am I supposed to relax? Russell is downstairs with the angel who was going to kill me just a few minutes ago, and I’m stuck up here with a set of bright red wings sticking out of my back, and you’re not helping me!” I say in frustration, attempting to will my wings back into my body. Glancing over at Reed, he’s smothering a grin. “You’re laughing now? This is funny to you?” I ask.

“Well, you should have seen the look on Russell’s face when I introduced him to Zephyr. He looked rather annoyed that you are here alone with us,” Reed says, smiling. “Zephyr wasn’t too pleased to meet Russell either. I wonder why…”

“Reed! Go downstairs and make sure Zephyr doesn’t kill Russell,” I say adamantly.

“Zephyr wouldn’t hurt Russell…unless Russell says something stupid,” Reed replies, unconcerned as he leans against the countertop.

“Reed! Help me!” I plead desperately.

“You want my help?” he asks, and I nod my head, glaring at him. “Okay, I will help.”

He pushes off from the counter, approaching me slowly, never taking his eyes from mine. Swiftly, he picks me up off my feet, seating me roughly on the counter. A surge of thrilling anticipation courses through me instantly while I wait to see what he will do next.

Standing between my legs, he pulls the butterfly clips from my hair, one by one, setting them on the counter, while my eyes devour every lovely contour of his angelic face. My hair hangs loosely down my back, until his hand slips under the mass of it at the base of my neck, gathering it tightly in the fist of his hand. Pulling my head back, so that my face tilts upward, he lowers his lips with agonizing slowness to mine. When our lips finally meet, his kiss sears me more intoxicatingly than the brandy, causing my face to flush and my breathing to become desperate. Gripping his upper arms with my hands, my nails dig into him lightly as I try to pull him closer to me.

“That is it, Evie, try to pull me to you,” Reed whispers against my lips. Wrapping my legs around his waist, I kiss him with all the desperate passion that I thought, only minutes before, I would never get to share with him again. Then, Reed pulls away from me.

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