She giggled. “And what is thatexactly?”
“Lessclothing.”
Sally didn’t know what was going to happen to her the next day. She didn’t know if the luminous sprites would fry her brain with their light, causing it to ooze out of her ears, or if she’d turn into a walking demon, but she did know that, right now, in her old bedroom, she had her mate who wanted to love her. And she wasn’t about to let that moment with him slipby.
Chapter Nine
“Every now and then, we have these moments in life when we know exactly what we are supposed to be doing. It’s like every little thing—our breathing, our movements, our thoughts and actions, everything—just makes sense. We are where we are supposed to be, doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing, with exactly whom we are supposed to be doing it with.” ~Costin
Walkingthrough the tree the second time didn’t seem to Sally quite as exciting as it had been the first time. But then, the first time she hadn’t been going into the sprite realm to meet the sprite queen and to have her head examined by some light sprites. She snorted to herself.Lightsprites.
“Are you so stressed that everything is amusing to you?”her mate asked through theirbond.
“Prettymuch.”
“If it makes you feel any better, you’re sexy ashell.”
“Even stressed and full ofdarkness?”
Costin chuckled.“Beautiful, if full of darkness gets me another night like last night, I say we just tell the light sprites to take ahike.”
Hiking light sprites.Sally bit her lip to keep from laughing as the stepped out of the tree and into the forest of the sprite realm. Her mom and dad had already crossed through and were waiting onthem.
“Everything okay?” her dadasked.
Sally couldn’t even make eye contact with her dad after her mate’s mental comment. “Everything’s great,dad.”
“Where’s the palace?” Costinasked.
Cindy held up her hand, asking for them to wait. Then, out of nowhere, or at least it seemed like that to Sally, there was a small castle about a hundred yardsaway.
“Right there,” Cindy said with a slygrin.
“Okay, so that just happened, right?” Costin askedher.
Sally nodded. “Totally happened, babe. No castle and then, boom,castle.”
Costin gave a thumbs-up. “As long as I’m not the only one hallucinating, then I’mgood.”
They walked in silence. Costin’s large hand wrapped around hers while Chris held Cindy’s. Sally felt almost as though she were being led to the gallows. She just needed that nifty background music indicating her doom wasnear.
“You’re being a bit dramatic this morning,” Costin whispered toher.
“You were a bit dramatic last night, but you didn’t hear me complaining, so stick a sock in it,fluffy.”
Costin made claw-like motions at her and hissed like acat.
“That’s disturbing. Let me video it so I can send it to Jen and Jacque. Otherwise, never do it again,” Sally said as she started to pull her phone from her backpocket.
“I’ll let you video me, if you let mevideo—”
“NOPE.” Sally cut him off quickly and turned to her mom. “So, Mom, how’s this show going to godown?”
They were entering the large door when her mom started to answer but was stopped by the sound of several gasps. Sally looked up as they walked into the castle and couldn’t stop the eye roll. There were a handful of women, no doubt sprites, milling about the large foyer all staring … atCostin.
“Did they seriously just gasp?” her dadasked.
Sally shrugged. “At least they aren’t asking for his autograph, pictures, or to have hisbabies.”
