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Excerpt from I Wish He Might...

Alec watched the lovely woman with riotous black curls framing a heart-shaped face that had turned pale upon discovering him sitting at her bedside. Sleep-laden brown eyes went wide as she drew back against the headboard, her full breasts pushing against the fabric of her pajamas as she strained to put some distance between them. The fabric was thick and practical, pants and a shirt that covered everything, and yet the simple impression of her nipples budding against the inside of the material stirred him.

As he looked at this woman, it was as if a thousand flames danced over his skin. He hadn't experienced true desire in a very long time; the sudden spark of desire taking him somewhat by surprise. He moved to the side of the bed, leaning in closer.

"You sought me, did you not? You wear my ring."

While watching her sleep, he'd slipped into her dreams, met her there and asked her what made her so sad, not that he needed to ask. When a Jinn walked in someone's dreams, he touched a part of their soul, saw their secrets.

What he saw in Nina's dreams made him feel things he didn't often allow himself to feel. What was the point? As a Jinn, a fire spirit who only existed to serve the needs and wishes of others. He and his kind were not meant for love.

Alec looked at Nina deeply, sliding to the side of the bed, watching her fear turn to curiosity, the knot of her fingers relaxing slightly where she clutched the blanket. He would be familiar to her, though she wouldn't know exactly why. She wouldn't remember-

"You're from my dream," she said suddenly, shocking his thoughts into silence and he watched understanding enter her eyes. "I'm still dreaming. Of course," she said with no small measure of relief. "You're Alec."

She wasn't dreaming, of course, but that she remembered him specifically was disturbing. Jinn were never seen, never remembered, unless they wanted to be.

"You're not dreaming," he said, laying his palm along the top of her thigh, sliding it upward. "Should I show you how real I am?"

She drew her leg away quickly. "Hey stop that. This isn't that kind of dream."

"What if I changed how I look? Would you believe me then?"

With merely a thought, he remembered the image of the other man in her dreams, the one she longed for, and became him. Her lips parted as she watched him, her breath coming a little faster.

"Peter?" she said on a whisper, and reached out her hand to touch his face. Alec shuddered, the softness of the touch making him hard and needful within seconds. He was a spirit, but he took the presence of a real man—or any other shape he desired—and was able to feel, act, and react like any other human.

Right now, that fact tortured him as he ached to take the woman in front of him. It would be easy enough, he thought. She thought she was in a dream, and he knew a thousand ways to please her....

"I can be whoever you want me to be," he said, leaning in, slipping his hand up underneath the soft fabric to caress the soft skin of her belly as he focused on her lips. Her tongue darted out, hungry for him, but right before he took her lips, she pushed him back.

"No. You aren't Peter. You aren't real," she said, her tone laced with pain. "If I am only a dream, then what is the harm? You can give in," he cajoled, unsure why he was so intent on seducing her, but finding himself compelled to do so. Maybe he had simply denied himself for too long. If not this woman, it might have been any other.

He focused magic through his touch, his fingers still splayed across her stomach, moving slowly toward the softer flesh that formed the delectable peak under her nightshirt. She wouldn't be able to resist him, especially in this form.

"What's the harm?" she practically hissed back at him, pushing him away before his hand closed over her breast and scuttling to the other side of the bed. She stood, tall for a woman but still only coming to his shoulder, turning a stormy glace in his direction.

"The harm is that if I r-remember, what it's l-like to be with h-him, and then I wake up a-alone," she said haltingly, biting her lip and holding back tears that he could see shimmering in the low, warm light of the room. "I can't take that."

He arms fell from their defensive position at her front to her sides as she slumped back down to sit on the other side of the bed. "I want to wake up now," she said dispiritedly, closing her eyes hard.

He waited while she did whatever it was she was doing. She opened her eyes again and turned in his direction.

"You're still here."

"Yes." He said, turning back to himself. "I told you, this is not a dream. I am Jinn. You found the ring and by slipping it on your finger, your tears touching it, you released me from its bondage. Now I am yours to command."

It wasn't strictly true, Alec knew. He was bound to honor her three wishes, though he could do so in any interpretation of them that he wished—a magical loophole—but he didn't have to do anything else she said. For some reason, though, he didn't mind the idea of being her slave—or maybe having her be his.

"Fine. If you say so. I'd like to command an interview, first of all. I need one for my paper."

A smile pulled at the corner of his lips. She was petulant, playing along, still believing she was caught in some strange dream. She also hadn't wished for the interview, so he could sidestep that one for now.

"Of all the things you could wish for, you would wish for that? To ask me questions?"

"No, it's not a wish, it's a command."

The grin broke loose and he laughed. Most wanted wealth, beauty, revenge, his body or someone else's, immediately. This luscious woman, who believed he was only a dream, wanted an interview for her newspaper.

"Fine. What if I promise you an interview – later."

"When?"

"After I grant your wishes. The interview I will do because I want to."

"Really?"

"Yes. So you can, uh, confirm your source?" he said, grasping for the language she would understand. "Make sure I am who I say I am."

This time she laughed. Her face lit up when she laughed, and he thought it one of the most beautiful sights he had ever seen. Over a thousand years, Alec had seen a lot.

"I guess that's true. I wouldn't expect a genie to be so concerned about research, but since you are just a figment of my imagination to begin with, I guess it makes sense."

"Do you need time to think about your wish?"

The sadness replaced her smile again, and he almost wished he hadn't reminded her. He knew what she was going to wish for and while part of him wanted to tell her how foolish it was, that was not his place. Most humans wished for stupid, vain things.

"I can wish for anything?"

"Almost. You cannot wish for immortality, more wishes, or to make someone return from the dead."

Her pretty nose wrinkled. "Ick, no, I don't want that. I just want the man I love back in my life."

"He is not dead?" Alec asked, pretending ignorance.

"No, of course not. We just had a...falling out that's keeping us apart. It's not his fault. It's...complicated."

"So all you wish is that he would want to be with you?" Alec led her along, rephrasing the wish to his liking, another Jinn trick.

"Yes. Yes, please. I always wonder if he has missed me as much as I miss him, and I wish we could be together, just like it was before," she said with a sincere longing so full of ache that it made Alec's chest tighten in reaction, though he remained calm in his appearance. This woman chased her own unhappiness, but it was not for him to judge.

"Granted."

"Just like that?"

"Yes. Sleep, Nina, and in the morning, you will find your wish has come to pass."

He watched her eyelids become heavy, a small smile lifting the corner of her generous mouth as she lay back down on the pillows.

"I don't believe you," she murmured before falling back to a deep sleep.

Alec leaned down, unable to resist one brief taste of her lips, and whispered against them, "You will."