Daphne's smile did nothing to make her more attractive and I could tell from Adam's uncomfortable reaction her arrival and immediate focus on me had his back up. Kael lurked by the door while my sister took a step into the room, sweeping it with judgmental eyes.

"Well, well," she said in her irritatingly sweet voice. "Eve and a mortal boy." She made a moue with her full lips while the young man in the bed looked briefly startled, then blank. I knew that look. Kael or Daphne-or ...