She looked a little put out by its absence. “How do you get back?”
“I have no idea about that, either. One minute, I was in my land without any magic. Now I’m in your land without any magic.”
She shook her head and began to pace. “What does that mean, no magic?”
“It means I am as human as you are right now.”
Only, she was dressed like a faerie. “You can’t go back?”
She bent down and knocked on the wall where the door had been. “It appears not.”
“Is that a paintbrush?”
“It appears so.” She drew her bottom lip between her teeth.
“What’s your plan?”
“I don’t have one yet.”
“You’ll have to stay here.”
“For the night.” She nodded and looked perturbed.
“You don’t have a chaperone.”
She looked down at the thing that someone might mistake for a gown. Someone stupid. “Not unless she’s in my pocket.”
If she had a pocket hidden somewhere on that dress, he would sell his eyeteeth to find it. “You’re all alone.” Thoughts of the last time he’d been alone with her still made him ache.
She nodded, rocking back and forth from the balls of her feet to her heels. “I believe we already discussed that.”
He was honor bound to take her in. To take care of her until one of her kind came to collect her. “Robin and your sister will be returning soon,” he said. Robin might be the one to collect her.
“Thanks for the warning,” she said dryly.
God, the woman made him want to chuckle. But that could be the drink.
Finn pulled the cord for a servant. “I’ll have someone show you to your chambers for the time being.”
“Do you plan to lock me in?”
“Do you plan to bolt?”
She shook her head. “My land is the last place I want to be right now.” She held out her hands in surrender. “Not to mention that I have nowhere else to go.”
“Quite true.” Something was wrong. She was much too complacent.
A knock sounded on the door. “Enter,” Finn bellowed.
Wilkins entered the room and stopped short. But he recovered quickly. “You summoned?”
“It appears we have a visitor.”
The stoic old butler bowed to her.
“Don’t you want to know how she got inside?”
“Not particularly, my lord.” Wilkins tugged at his necktie and then folded his hands behind his back. “Please do let me know if there is a security breach I should take care of.”