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Part One Hundred and Sixteen
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“Are you still okay?” she asked me through the shower door.“Yes,” I said to her as I stood under the hot water.A few seconds later I turned the water off and she handed me a towel when I opened the shower door. Her eyes still held worry as I brushed my teeth. She followed me to the bedroom and sat on the bed as I got dressed.I was tired but I wasn’t in any pain, for me that was a win. I’d take exhaustion over pain any day, especially the kind of pain I’d been in the last few days. Karani had been wrong. The side-effects were so much worse than she’d described in her book.“I’m okay,” I said to her as I pulled the shirt over my head. “Actually, I’m hungry.”She smiled and that made me smile. “Really? What do you want to eat?”“Whatever’s in the fridge is fine,” I said to her and she looked like I’d told her she’d won the national lottery.“I would have started with lunch in half an hour anyway, can you hold out for twenty minutes?” she asked me and I nodded.“I’ll try not to pass ou
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I went back upstairs after I ate breakfast with Adara and she stayed downstairs to help Norah with the kids. I just needed a few minutes alone, to center myself. I got into the shower and I shaved for the first time in more than a week.“What time do you want to do this thing?” Adara asked me after I showered and came back downstairs, I shrugged instead of answering her. “You shaved.” She looked at me and smiled.“I thought it was about time,” I said to her and she laughed.“I kind of liked that scruffy look on you,” she said to me and I frowned.“Scruffy? I was leaning towards rugged…” Adara laughed again as my voice trailed off.I felt nervous and my heart was beating erratically, thumping hard in my chest. I wished that we didn’t have to do this but I knew there was no other outcome. James opened the front door as we sat by the table.“Hey,” I said to him as I stood up and we hugged.“I’m coming with you,” he said to me.“James,” I began to say but he interrupted me.“No, you’re no
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I felt that stirring of magic inside me and I saw flames in my mind’s eye. I opened my hands without saying the words and the flames were there, it burned from green to red to blue and I looked at Jessica as she smiled at me. The flames overtook me and I felt the most magnificent, indescribable surge of power go through me.“It’s done, it worked,” I said as the flames died out. Malachi was walking back to the house and I looked at his back, his aura was full of anger.“He’ll get over it, eventually, he doesn’t understand why,” Jessica said to me but she clearly did and normally she would be the first one to yell at me when it came to magic.“I can’t believe you had the guts to do that,” she said and patted me on the back before she also made her way back to the house. Adara came over to me, her one hand full of my blood. She was crying and I walked over to her and hugged her.“That was horrific, I’m sorry,” she said as she cried against me. James was looking at me and I lifted my one
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As Sunday lunch turned into late afternoon, we all sat in the living room. Adara, Shoran and Norah were upstairs with the kids, bathing and getting them ready to go to sleep. It was a peaceful evening with my family. Things had started to click into place for me. The dreams, Death’s message and everything else made sense now. I wanted to spend as much time with my family as I could.“Are you guys moving to Montana now?” James asked Malachi suddenly and I laughed.“Are we?” Jessica asked him, looking very worried.“Just think about it, we could buy a ranch with horses and cattle, you can have chickens and a vegetable garden, and bake bread every day,” Malachi said seriously and looked at her. I couldn’t control it anymore and burst out laughing. The look on Jessica’s face said it all.“That’s really mean, bake bread every day, like seriously, dude, I love you but there’s no chance,” Jessica said to him. Malachi laughed as he looked at me.“But Jess, just think about it. You could wake
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Everyone was quiet for a long time. Jessica looked worried and that made me worry. Adara looked afraid, James too. Malachi, though, he looked determined and I knew what he was thinking.“What’s your plan?” Malachi asked me and I smiled at him.“Dad ...”“I know you have a plan and don’t even think of telling us to back off and that you don’t want us involved,” he said to me.“He’s right, Kiran. You’re going to need all the help you can get, you can’t take on a whole coven by yourself,” Jessica said.“Don’t you have a coven or something,” James asked her.“Dude, seriously, don’t you know anything? A witch can’t be in a coven if she’s married to a wolf, so no, I don’t have a coven anymore,” Jessica said to him.“But you had all those witches at your wedding,” he said to her and she laughed.“Dude, I still have friends,” she said. “But friends are just friends, I can’t ask them to help here.”“Why not?” Adara asked her and I smiled at her. None of them would understand it. This wasn’t so
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I felt that stirring of magic inside me and I saw flames in my mind’s eye. I opened my hands without saying the words and the flames were there, it burned from green to red to blue and I looked at Jessica as she smiled at me. The flames overtook me and I felt the most magnificent, indescribable surge of power go through me.“It’s done, it worked,” I said as the flames died out. Malachi was walking back to the house and I looked at his back, his aura was full of anger.“He’ll get over it, eventually, he doesn’t understand why,” Jessica said to me but she clearly did and normally she would be the first one to yell at me when it came to magic.“I can’t believe you had the guts to do that,” she said and patted me on the back before she also made her way back to the house. Adara came over to me, her one hand full of my blood. She was crying and I walked over to her and hugged her.“That was horrific, I’m sorry,” she said as she cried against me. James was looking at me and I lifted my one
