“One thing I’ll say for him, he’s good in bed,” she said as she sat down.

“Then it was gone when you woke up. He didn’t even keep it.” I thought of the horn, which I still had.

“I should have…”

“Everyone who interacts with Loki says that. Even me on occasion. Just don’t actually hurt him, right?”

“I don’t think I could.” She studied me. Beautiful, spun gold hair. Silver fingernails.

If I wasn’t thoroughly taken, I would have been tempted. Which was kind of an eww, but what could I do? Sidhe were either beautiful or terrible. Or both at the same time. “You know, I sometimes want to push him off a cliff, but he’s still my father.”

“I think we all have relatives like that. Just don’t warn him that I’m coming for revenge.”

“He already knows, I’m sure. He wouldn’t have done it if he wasn’t expecting revenge.” And possibly makeup sex, I thought, then felt my cheeks turn scarlet.

She laughed ringingly. “I’ll get out of your way. But no more of those brownies.”

“What? They’re delicious.”

She laughed again and then vanished in a shimmer of bells. Made me wonder why she hadn’t teleported inside in the first place.

Maybe door exploding made a better grand entrance.

“You’re lucky she believed you,” Kanesha said from the doorway.

“I know.” I reached for another brownie myself. “Not sure why she did.”

“Maybe she thought she could get a clue by being nice and chatting.”
That was a good thought. “Well, she had no luck there. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if…”

I picked up a brownie, turned around, and handed it to him. “…he appeared right behind me. Double batch of brownies, although I had to give a few of them to a fairy.”

Loki munched on the brownie. “Pretty, isn’t she.”

“I want to duplicate that nail color,” Kanesha mused. “I bet a nail artist could do it.”

I grinned. “It would look good on you.” Then I turned back to Loki. “So you stole her necklace so she’d come prank you so you could have makeup sex. Come on, admit it.”

He looked innocent, with even less success than the fairy. Kanesha looked slightly shocked.

“Just leave me out of it. I don’t feel like fighting a Sidhe princess.”

He grinned a bit. “I intended to. Not my fault your friend found it.”