little man. “I was taken from my home, and then they sold me at some
tournament thingy and apparently now I’m married, but I didn’t say,
‘I do,’ so I don’t think I am. I just want to get home.”
Yes, she should hurry. She needed to get home to her fantastic life
on the Earth plane. She needed to get back to work, so she could go
back to her dreary apartment at the end of a long day and microwave
something she didn’t really want to eat and watch television. She
didn’t want to stay and explore this strange place. She didn’t want to
give that gorgeous hunk of a man a chance. She certainly didn’t want
to meet the other, possibly even hotter, half of him. No, she wanted to
go back to a place that probably wouldn’t even realize she had gone.
She was an idiot.
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Sophie Oak
Meg stopped in the middle of the little trail. A vision of Beck
swamped her senses, and she was stunned by how much she felt for
him. Oh god, I’m in love with him.
It was stupid, and far too soon, and true. She already loved
Beckett Finn, and here she was walking away from him. She hadn’t
really loved Michael, and she’d given him three years of her life. She
was walking away from Beck after a day? If she wouldn’t even fight
for a man like him, she didn’t deserve to find love.
Everything crystallized as she stood in the middl
e of the faery
forest. She shook her head. She was in the middle of a freaking faery
forest! All of her life, she had daydreamed and read fantasy novels
and done anything she could to escape reality. In her daydreams and
the stories she wrote that she never let anyone read, she was a
different person. She was a confident, lovable woman who faced
challenges head on. Maybe it was time to be the person she always