Dangerous Temptation
Zeke Kendall did not believe in fairies. Not merely a serious scientist but a man of the millennium, he held no truck with ghosties or ghoulies or things that went bump in the night. It didn't matter that he was standing hip-deep in what was purported to be a fairy glen in the middle—well, no, to be fair, the western edge—of Ireland, where generations had seen, spoken to, consorted with and recovered from fairies. Even standing in the middle of fairy central, Zeke could say with perfect conviction that he did not believe in the species.
Which was why the sudden sight of the delicate, sloe-eyed woman sent him reeling.
He'd been on the site most of the morning, tucked along a steep, wet hillside in between road and riverbed, in preparation for his work farther up the mountain. Seasoning, one of his Irish colleagues had called it, for the meal to come. Background and basis for an area of study he wasn't acquainted with.
"Get a feel for the magic here," the friend had said with a huge grin over a double shot of Tullamore Dew the night before. "The kind you can't get in a place with barstools and cigarette smoke."
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