wanted to be.
She had waited for this all of her life, and now she was running
away?
“Come along, miss.” The red man looked at her curiously. “Well,
what are you waiting for? I can get you home.”
Meg shook her head. Her decision was made. “I changed my
mind. I don’t want to go home. Honestly, my life there kind of
sucked. Maybe life here will suck, too, but shouldn’t I give it a
chance? When you think about it, it really is kind of cool. I mean, I
have seen more weird-ass shit in the last twenty-four hours than most
people see in a lifetime. Vampires! How freaking cool is that? They
have their own plane and apparently are just as interested in their
stock portfolios as they are in blood. And gnomes! Sure, they didn’t
actually have any travel tips for me, so they weren’t like the ones at
home, but the ones at home are ceramic. They aren’t half as awesome
as the ones here. And the sidhe.” Meg sighed. “I think I care about
him. He needs me. I can’t walk away.”
“But don’t you want to go home?”
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Meg rolled her eyes. “Screw my home. Somewhere out there is
this superhot faery. He paid a lot of money for me. My ex-husband
never took me to any place nicer than a Chili’s because he was a
cheap ass. Beck already spent more on me than any man ever has, and
then he had to do the Fight Club thing. No one ever fought for me before. Sure, he was kind of a dickhead afterward, but I think I can
work on that problem. And I haven’t even met his other half. I think
they’re identical. Twins should be identical, right? Even if they aren’t,
even if he’s unattractive, I’ll be okay with it because Cian is a part of
Beck. If I love one, then I have to love and accept the other. Right?”
The red man took a deep breath. “You’re a strange girl. You speak