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She was so freaking adorable. So tiny. Her black and white long-ish fur made her look a little scraggly, and I loved it.
So I kissed her head a few more times before passing her over to Win. She was hungry again, so we went over to the hutch where I’d decided her food area would be, and got her set up with some wet food since it was almost bedtime.
I sighed to myself because I had a feeling she was going to wake me up throughout the night to eat.
Winter wrapped an arm around my waist—his other arm cradled Odin to his chest—and I rested my head on his shoulder, asking, “You staying over tonight?”
Winter gave my hip a squeeze. “I’d like to, if that’s okay?”
That made me smile a little. “You can stay over anytime you want. Any night.”
He kissed my temple. “Be careful saying that or you’ll have me over here every single night.”
I didn’t say anything for a few seconds, then whispered, “That doesn’t sound like a bad thing to me.”
He kissed my temple and left his lips there for a long moment.
Chapter Thirty
Winter
Surprisingly, this time, when we got interrupted during a gnome cage pick-up, we got a call from the manager of The Museum of Supernatural History himself… instead of one of the twins.
“The pixies are hurting people again. I thought you took care of it!”he yelled into the phone as soon as Miles picked it up. He was so loud, I could hear him too.
Miles grimaced and put it on speaker so he didn’t have to listen to the man yell into his ear. “Have you checked on the artifact? It should still be working.”
It was true. I didn’t know a ton about artifacts, but I knew that once they were filled with magic, it took years for the magic to run out. It had only been a few weeks.
The man on the other line was quiet for a full thirty seconds before finally admitting,“I can’t find it.”
That made Miles sit up straighter. “What do you mean you can’t find it?”
“I mean that it’s missing. I went to check on it after the pixies pushed a patron down on the sidewalk, and she ended up with scraped-up knees and palms, and… well, it’s not there. It’s not anywhere.”
“What happened to it?”
“I don’t know!”he yelled, then took a breath and spoke at a nicer volume.“I think someone stole it.”
Miles and I exchanged a look before he spoke again. “Well, I suppose I can make another one if Chaos—Mortimer—is amenable, but I don’t know how to ensure it doesn’t get stolen again. That’s something you’ll have to figure out, sir.”
The man sighed.“Honestly, that sounds like a temporary solution. I already had to call the authorities about the artifact, but I highly doubt they’ll be able to recover it, and even if they do, it won’t be anytime soon. That doesn’t help me right now. Do you know another way to get them to calm down? I don’t want to have to remove them from the gardens, but I will if we need to in order to keep our patrons safe. We can’t keep doing this. The museum is going to get in so much trouble if word gets out, and I really don’t want to see anyone else get hurt.”
“Like I said before, we can try removing the dragon egg fossil altogether and see if that helps. I wouldn’t recommend keeping it anywhere in the museum, though. They’ll just break in again, and we’ll be back to square one.”
The man was quiet for a few seconds before he let out a frustrated growl.“Alright, fine. Do it. Take the damn dragonegg away. I hate losing a fossil like that, but there’s no way we can keep it. Not when the pixies are acting like this over it.”
“I thought the board wouldn’t let you?”
He let out a long sigh.“I’ll handle it. I’ll get permission as soon as we hang up. We’ll probably send the egg to another museum. But how soon can you get here?”
Miles and I looked at each other, and he checked the schedule on his phone. After a few seconds, he said, “We have one more job on the schedule, but it shouldn’t take us long. I have to take our current faeries to the sanctuary before we can come out. We can be there in about two hours or so.”
“That would be perfect. I’ve closed off the gardens again, but I’d still like to get this taken care of as soon as possible.”
“We’ll be there as soon as we can.”
“Great. See you soon.”
