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hot natural spring, more than an actual tub. It was serenity with a splash of bliss.
     
    After about an hour soak, we met up with the others. All seated in pedicure chairs that massaged my back brilliantly while a poor woman got to work on my feet. It’d been a while since I had a pedicure. Life had been crazy, so sue me for enjoying it fully.
     
    The poor little Asian woman worked up a sweat while she went to town using her foot file paddle.
     
    “My lover will enjoy this silky new body of mine,” Briar commented.
     
    Briar, a Witch who, on the outside, looked about as pretty as they come. With coiled red hair, amazing aqua eyes—it all made her soft looking. Her mouth was entirely something different though. She sputtered profane and naughty comments constantly that had me holding back laughter.
     
    I cracked an eye open and glanced at Haven. We both burst out laughing.
     
    “Something funny, dears?” Briar asked.
     
    “This tickles,” I said, gave a wiggle of my toes in an attempt to save the moment.
     
    After that we joked, laughed, gossiped—did everything girls should do at a spa. But now, it was onto the body treatment, the dreaded hair removal.
     
    Haven stayed with me, while one of the beauticians began waxing my brows. After she placed the gooey hot stuff on my brow, placed the cotton covering over it and pulled it off, I shouted, “Ow.”
     
    “Stop being such a baby,” Haven retorted. “I went first and survived it.”
     
    So, I could handle vampires, big bad witches, but all this ripping out my hair, plucking at my skin—I could live without.
     
    When the woman finally finished assaulting my brows, she moved southbound. I shot straight up and held the fluffy robe tightly closed. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
     
    “A Brazilian wax.” The beautician glanced at Haven. “That is what you ordered for her?”
     
    “You did what?” I gasped.
     
    “It’s not for you.” Haven giggled. “It’s for Kyden. Now, lie back.”
     
    Resolving that it was better to just get this over with than spend the next twenty minutes arguing with Haven, only to have her win, I lay back down, grabbed onto the edge of the bed I was on and gripped it madly. “Oh, dear God.” Haven always won, dammit.
     
    The beautician opened my legs and raised them so my feet rested on the sheets. She raised my robe up so it freed the part of my body I definitely did not want her to see and nudged at my legs to open them. “Just relax your legs.”
     
    Yeah, right.
     
    As she was about to get to business, I glanced up at her as she stood at the end of the bed looking down at my most private of places. “Not all of it. Don’t you dare leave me looking like a girl in a training bra!”
     
    Haven chuckled. “I would never do that. It’ll be pretty.” She kept her gaze on my face which only made me happy. We were close and all, but if she had her eyes anywhere else, I’d throw a serious Nexi-fit.
     
    I almost responded to her until the hot wax came across my skin. Instead, I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth. Oh, this was not going to be fun.
     
    By the time it was over, my throat burned from all the screaming I did. Haven’s cheeks glittered with tears of laughter that flowed rapidly as she watched my pain. Jerk.
     
    Good thing I had the healing ability or I’d walk funny. I had to give it to Haven, it did look pretty. It’s not like I was a woman from the 1800’s, but I never went to this extent to keep things neat and tidy. This might become a ritual.
     
    After I got dressed, I returned to the room to find Haven nearly bouncing with excitement. “This was only phase one of our fun night.”
     
    “Wonderful,” I said sarcastically. “I can hardly wait to find out what’s in store for me next.” I had a real bad feeling about this.
     
    When we got to our next venue, I couldn’t have been more on the mark. “Please tell me this is a joke?” A flashing sign that read