”She’ll die from said serum?”

Lauren tapped her nose with the tip of one her long, slender fingers. She was just beginning to feel the effects of the champagne that Kenzi was already showing. ”Score one for Team Human.”

”And Team Smarty Pants,” Kenzi smiled. ”But what if she doesn’t die?”

”She won’t be able to hurt Bo. No powers. No threat. Just Bo and her destiny.” There was sadness in her voice and a reminder to both of them why they had left so abruptly. One hour. One credit card. Two one way tickets to far far away.

”I don’t get it, Lauren—and I don’t even want to know what you had to do to get her to drink it. Or did you give the Morrigan one of your famous needles?”

”Nope, no needles. No toys. No spare parts. Allll Dr. Lewis,” she said patting the inside of her thigh.

Kenzi tilted her head. Did her cheeks pink up like roses? ”No, nope, no details. I don’t want any kinda nasty of you and that she-devil in my mind.”

”The ’how’ of how I gave it to her doesn’t matter, Kenzi. She’s through. No more Fae powers. No evil agenda.”

”And you did this for…” she hesitated and dropped her voice, ”Bo?”

”Yup,” now it was Lauren reaching for the bottle and signaling to the Flight Attendant to send over another. ”A good-bye gift she’ll never even know about. That either makes me the biggest buffoon this side of…I don’t know, this side of funky faetown or—”

”—the best girlfriend Bo will never deserve.” Just hearing Kenzi say those words closed up Lauren’s throat, and she felt tears begin to build up in her eyes in spite of the fury with which she was trying to blink them away.

Kenzi, it seems, wasn’t particularly fond of public emotional outbursts either and spiritedly, almost spilling champagne on herself, emptied the last puddles of bubbly into Lauren’s glass—she steadied Lauren’s hand with her own and didn’t let go even after she had finished pouring. ”One hour. One dead Morrigan. And to you, oh brilliant one.” When Kenzi laughed Lauren noticed her ice blue eyes misting over with tears, too. Kenzi continued, ”And to the most brave, dangerous—”