I met the fourth, who left traces in the bookstore earlier today .
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I guess that's yesterday now.
She looked like a happy- grandmother type.
I couldn't tell what she was." "Was it her?" asked Ben, and nodded at the phone.
"I can't answer that," I told him.
"But you can answer me," said Jesse.
"Was the old woman the one who took Gabriel?" "I don't know," I said.
I closed my eyes and thought about what had happened and when.
"No.
She was looking through Phin's records, trying to find out who Phin gave something to.
The bad guys had already tried to kill me once--if you didn't pick up on it, the incident at my garage yesterday morning was aimed at me.
They knew where they were looking." Maybe if I could have talked to her, we'd know more about what it was that the fairy queen wanted.
"She's not smart, this fairy queen," said Ben.
"If she were, she'd have known that you weren't human.""I don't exactly advertise," I told him.
"And, other than my connection to Adam and the Marrok, I'm not important.
There's no reason that she should know.
Especially since she's been producing shows in California." "She makes assumptions," Darryl said.
"Most people look at you, Mercy, and wonder if you are fae or wolf and just hiding it, because you're mated to a wolf and working with a fae." He stopped and raised a speculative eyebrow.
"Or she thinks you are one or the other and might react and tell her which one if she kept taunting you with being human." "That sounds about right," I said.
"Why not just give them whatever she wants and get Gabriel back," Mary Jo said.
"It's not yours, and it sounds like the rightful owner is dead anyway." Ben snorted.
"You aren't usually this dumb.
You want to hand a woman like this fairy queen an object of power that she believes can protect her from us?" Darryl tilted his head and looked at Mary Jo.
She flushed and dropped her gaze.
"Don't think I don't remember that you disobeyed Adam," he said.
"You have no standing here, and you will not leave this house until your punishment." He waited, then answered her question.
"Ben's right.
Besides, you really think she's going to let anyone live who knows what she has? I don't know a damn thing about what she wants.