I've loved you for a long time, ' she said. 'But there was always something holding me back. Maybe it was that I was afraid of an emotion that was so consuming. It still frightens me,' she admitted in a whisper. Tamani chuckled. 'If it makes you feel any better, it scares the daylights out of me on a regular basis.

Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.

So there's magic? Real magic? It's not just all scientific like David says?"Tamani rolled his eyes. "David again?"Laurel bristled. "He's my friend. My best friend.""Not your boyfriend?""No. I mean...no."Tamani stared at her for several seconds. "So the position's still open?"Laurel rolled her eyes. "We are so not having this conversation.

And do you really think someone's going to look at you and say, 'Hmm, I think that girl's a plant'?

It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic.

Tamani paused and mulled this over for a few seconds. "If I say no, are you going to follow me anyway?""Of course.

Tamani?" she asked, even though she knew this was the wrong time. "How is a plant supposed to beat a superstrong troll?

But with me, you are never just a spring faerie.

He'd been back for about two weeks, and everything in Laurel's life had been thrown into Chaos. Sexy, sexy chaos.