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plates keep coming. “You weren’t kidding.”
    He grinned and wolfed down another stack of pancakes. “I have been off my feed for a while. I suddenly regained my appetite.”
    She nibbled at her bacon and watched him eat. “Somehow, I thought you would eat like a bird.”
    He grinned, and she laughed at the blueberries in his teeth.
    She sat back and sipped at her coffee. “I hope that you aren’t going swimming for at least an hour. The water compression would pop all of that right up.”
    He shook his dark head and kept eating. “I don’t plan on swimming today. Today, I am planning on courting you as best as I am able.”
    Tiff blinked. “How are you going to do that?”
    “I think I will find the swings that Lee mentioned and we will have a picnic. We can discuss where we want to live and what to name the children.”
    She coughed on the coffee she was sipping. “Children?”
    “Oh, yes. I would like three. The Fergus house is large and the kids will have cousins to play with.”
    “See, it would never work. I would want to live at Grayson house.” She shrugged. “Sorry. As the eldest, I am the inheritor. I need to remain at the family home.”
    He was staring at her with wide eyes. “Did you say Grayson?”
    She nodded. “Yes, my name is Tiffany Grayson. Tiffany Annette Grayson if you must know the gory truth.”
    “You live ten miles from my family home.”
    She put her cup down with a clatter. “What?”
    “You are on the other side of the county line, but your family lives ten miles from mine. No wonder we came through at the same time.”
    Tiff laughed, “And why we used different transporters. Different zones by a few yards. They did mention that you were so close that you were almost on top of me.”
    He got a heated look on his face. “Now, there is an idea.”
    Tiff blushed. “Right, well, pardon my slip of the tongue.”
    “Another lovely idea.”
    “Oh god.” She put her face in her hands. The wicked gleam in his eyes started a shiver in her system and watching his flirtation was enough to warm her from the inside out. She tried to remember why she thought their mating would be a bad idea, but her mind drew a blank.
    “Right, so I need to maintain my territory, Davus. It isn’t something I can negotiate on.”
    He smiled. “Since we are so close to each other, home-wise, I believe that I can agree to that.”
    Damn, she didn’t want him to agree. She wanted him to insist on remaining in his own home. Maybe they could arrange a weekend mating contract or something.
    “What are you thinking about?”
    She sighed. “Ways that I can have my cake and eat it too.”
    His smile changed to a slow curl of his lips that made her heart flutter. “I believe we can arrange that very thing.”
    Tiff was almost afraid to ask.
     

Chapter Six
     
     
    They stopped at the Open Heart Bed and Breakfast where Tiff got to meet her first djinn. Teebie was charming, elegant and she handed Davus a large basket with a wink.
    Davus asked, “Where are you staying?”
    “Um, why?”
    “I thought you might like to change into something more casual.”
    Tiff brightened, “Oh, I am at the small-predator hostel. I chose it to tick my gran off.”
    He grinned. “Lead the way.”
    She led him through town, acknowledging the appreciative looks she was getting from a few of the men, but she didn’t stop to flirt.
    When they approached the women’s hostels, she got him to wait with the basket. “Don’t come too close, the hostels are guarded by gender spells.”
    “I was warned. I will be next to the tree line.”
    She sprinted away from him, ran inside, brushed her hair and slipped into a sundress with a lined bodice. A nice pair of flats later and she rushed outside to find him.
    Her eagerness put a blush in her cheeks, but when she spotted him at the tree line, leaning against an oak with the basket dangling from his fingers, she slowed down and approached with a little less enthusiasm showing.
    It