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petty cash box,” he said, with what he probably intended to be defiance.
    I’d had enough. “Dougie, you know I can feel when you’re scared, right?” I took half a step toward him. “Not to mention the part where I never said anything about a petty cash box. Where’s the money that was in it?”
    “Spent,” he admitted, after a sullen second or two of standing there, obviously trying to work out if he could get away with any other answer.
    Siobhan stared at him in obvious shock. It was nice to know that she hadn’t known about that part. “On what?”
    “Stuff.” Dougie shrugged. “None of your business.”
    Siobhan looked like she might cry. That or hit him. I wasn’t sure which, even with my powers.
    Back to the issue at hand.
    “Siobhan, who does this cell phone belong to?” I asked.
    “He’s coming.” She angled her head at someone coming through the crowd with a purposeful stride. I could feel the anger coming off him at having been stolen from. Siobhan was probably just good at keeping an eye on marks.
    Since I couldn’t afford the approaching man going to the police, I held up the phone and nodded at him. I added the nicest smile I had. Not to mention just a trace of power. From the way he checked me out as he approached, I knew it had worked.
    “Is this yours?” I asked.
    “I think that’s mine, yes,” he said a little breathlessly. He turned it on, checking it. “You caught the thieves involved?”
    “No thieves.” I treated him to another smile. “There seems to have been a terrible misunderstanding. These youths thought it was their phone.” I pushed a little harder. I needed him to trust me. This was one side of my powers I’d used plenty of times. Even the coven had used me for this. Smoothing over…incidents. “They picked it up by mistake.”
    “Oh, thank goodness I have it back. I’m traveling on business and I would be lost without my phone!” he said. “I couldn’t believe it when they picked it up off the table while I was eating.”
    I handed it to him. “You know how alike phone cases look.” It wasn’t an explanation, not really. Without the steady stream of power I was pushing into him, he would never have believed it. Never have trusted me enough to believe it. I wasn’t hypnotizing him, exactly. I couldn’t put thoughts in his head, but I could influence what he felt so much that he would believe almost anything I said.
    “I don’t think the boy realized his girlfriend had theirs in her pocket. Sorry.”
    “These things happen,” the man said. “Nice of you to straighten things out. Um…you wouldn’t be interested in getting a drink sometime, would you?”
    “I’m with someone,” I said.
    “Even so…”
    Maybe I’d overdone things. Certainly, it took another flicker of magic before he turned away, going to take a call.
    Of course, by that point, Siobhan and Dougie had gone.  
    Thieves! Not just thieves but goblin thieves! Goblin thieves, in Siobhan’s case, who didn’t listen to me. Was there no way to get Siobhan to dump Dougie for her own good? Maybe a strong dose of my power? Goblins had not much more of a wall around their emotions than humans, so I might be able to achieve something if I tried.
    Only that would be wrong. I was not going to use my power to push them to break up. I didn’t have the right, even when I thought it would be for the best. Siobhan needed to make that decision for herself. It was still a mystery to me why she would ever want to be with Dougie, though. Either it was blind infatuation or Siobhan had a very compelling reason not to walk away from an idiot like him.
    It occurred to me that I wasn’t going to be getting information from Siobhan today. That was a pity. She was a good source of information down in goblin territory, not to mention anything on the less legal side of life in the capital. It was just that Dougie was such a bad influence on her behavior above ground. As for below ground… who knew what