“Okay?” I asked again.
Moira blinked. “Um. Yes. Sure. Got it.”
I sighed and picked up the man’s tanned legs, averting my eyes at the rest of him. Ash smirked. “You don’t want to turn him over first?”
“Absolutely not.”
Ash reached down and scooped him up under the shoulders. The position made carrying the stranger more difficult, but I did not want a penis flopping around in my shop. It was bad enough that a penis wasexposedin my flower shop.
I grunted as we lifted him from the floor. He was heavier than I thought. “Straight back to the office,” I said. “And hurry.”
Shadows fell into the store as some curious customers tried to peer in only to see Moira frantically waving her arms around to distract them. “Open in just a couple of minutes. Sorry! We had a bad spill and needed some cleanup.”
We rounded the corner and slipped out of sight.
Once we had him situated and covered with a blanket, Ash called out to Moira. I stared down at the unexpected company.
“Moira summoned him, you said?” Ash ran a hand through his chestnut hair when he shut the door. “She’s never done something like that before, has she?”
“Never.”
“He’s not human.”
“I think he might be fae or some type of nature being. His magic has a fae feel to it.”
Ash nodded. “Not a dryad. I’d know.”
The man was leanly built and chiseled. His face was almost unearthly beautiful, tanned, and perfectly sculpted. Perfect patrician nose, long amber lashes, and messy hair that held several different shades of blond and light brown. His skin shone with a golden glow.
Everywhere.
Oy vey.
“Someone should stay in here with him so he won’t freak out when he wakes up.”
“I’ll do it,” I offered. In a strength test, I’d beat Ash every time. He had his own share of gifts, but mine had changed over the years.
Plus, shapeshifter. I could subdue him if I needed to.
“Call if you need assistance.” He grimaced. “Should we close early?”
I sank into my seat and closed my eyes. “Let’s try not to. People are starting to whisper about financial trouble.”
Ash rolled his eyes. “Dating a Lord is good for business until it’s not.”
“Truer words have never been spoken.”
A grim smile touched his lips before he slipped out the door, leaving me with a handsome stranger I had no idea what to do with.
My life had a way of keeping me on my toes these days, and I wasn’t sure I liked it.
I must have dozedoff for a while, curled in my chair. Silence had fallen, the kind of quiet that raises the hair on the back of your neck. The kind of quiet the darkness preferred.
I pulled magic to me.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” a deep, masculine voice said.
My eyes opened. Golden naked guy had my blanket wrapped around him and knotted low on his hips. If he wasn’t holding magic at the end of his fingertips and staring at me with my death in his eyes, my attention might have lingered a little longer on his six-pack because he waspretty. His hair was mussed, and his eyes glowed with a strange violet light, their depths swirling with flashes of pink.
