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anticipate there will be any difficulties with that.”
    Emily stood. “Is that all?”
    “I’ll draw up some papers and send them to you for review.” Maddy came out from behind the desk. “I think you should have another lawyer look over the documents that get filed in the human legal system.”
    Emily looked at Harsh. “Is there anyone you recommend?”
    “I trust Maddy, but give me a day or two and I’ll give you some names.”
    “Thank you again.” She headed for the door.
    “Emily.” Harsh stood, too. “Do you have a few moments for me?”
    Maddy looked up from the folders she was sliding into a maroon leather briefcase. Emily ignored her, and so did Harsh.
    “Of course.”
    “Well, then.” Maddy snapped closed her briefcase. “If you don’t have any questions for me, Emily, I’ll be on my way.”
    “None right now. Thank you. I appreciate your assistance.”
    “All in a day’s work. Here’s my card. Please, feel free to call or e-mail if you have any questions.”
    She took the card. “Thank you.”
    When Maddy was gone, Emily sat down again. “If you’re going to take me to task for what I said to Maddy, don’t. It was uncalled for.” She smiled so sadly that Harsh’s heart broke for her. She hesitated, and he waited for her to finish her thought. “Who knows?” She smiled, and this time it was not so sad. “Perhaps I’ll get to keep him.”
    Harsh stayed on his feet. He acknowledged what she said with a nod. What could he say that would make any difference? “I have information about your life with Christophe that may answer some of your questions.”
    “Ah. I’d like to have Kynan here, if you don’t mind.”
    “Of course.”
    “I need to feed my son, too.” She slid a cell phone from the pocket of her jeans. “It seems ridiculous to call someone who’s just upstairs, doesn’t it?”
    “Modern technology.”
    “It’s me,” she said after dialing. “How is he?” She waited. “He’s hungry.” She smiled softly, a smile that was meant for Kynan. “Can you come down with him? Harsh has something he wants to tell me in private, and I’d rather not hear it alone.”
    Ah. Yes. She was making sure Kynan knew Maddy wasn’t there. Whatever had gone on between Kynan and Maddy, it wasn’t over yet, and Emily knew it.
    She put away the phone. “He’ll be right down.”
    He didn’t know what to say to that. She was with Kynan Aijan, for pity’s sake.
    She ignored his awkward loss of words. “Most of the time I know I don’t love him. And then there are times, like now, when I think, if things were different, I could. It makes me sad to think I’ve met the right man at the wrong time in both our lives.”
    “Relationships take time.”
    She didn’t answer because the door to the office opened and Kynan Aijan walked in with a cloth diaper over his shoulder and Emily’s son in his arms. Recognition robbed him of the words he should have had for Kynan.
    Emily dit Menart’s son was a genetic hybrid. Part demon and part mage, which was supposed to be impossible. Just like Harsh himself.



C HAPTER 7

    P aisley laughed, but she was faking it because for the minute that she’d misunderstood what Iskander had just said, some twisted part of her had considered saying heck, yes, she’d take a shower with him. She couldn’t, of course. And wouldn’t. Not even with the most beautiful man she’d ever seen.
    “Oh my goodness. Of course you meant separate showers.”
    “Sure.”
    She brushed gray dust off her arms. The stuff clung to her shirt and skin like there was glue in it. “I would love to take a shower. Thank you.”
    He grinned. “Sorry about that. That just came out wrong. I’m not really a perv.”
    “No worries.” It was hard not to believe he’d been beautiful all his life, but maybe not. Maybe as a kid he’d been chubby or had a bad complexion, or maybe that incredible bone structure and musculature hadn’t come together until after the horror of