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Chapter 263
Leesa awoke to her favorite sight in the whole world—Rave’s smiling face just inches from her own. Enough pale light leaked in through the cavern entrance for her to see him clearly and to show her that a new day was well underway. Rave’s head lay upon his bicep and his left hand rested softly upon her hip. No wonder she had slept so warm and soundly.
She had long ago gotten over being uncomfortable knowing he watched her while she slept. Bending her head forward, she kissed him lightly on the forehead.
“Good morning,” she said.
Rave lifted his head and propped himself up on his elbow. “Did you sleep okay?”
Leesa stretched her arms languorously above her head. “Like I was sleeping on a cloud. “I’m guessing you didn’t sleep at all, right?”
Rave’s smile widened into a grin. “Why on earth would I want to sleep when I could spend the time looking at you?”
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How much time passed before she and Rave finally got back up off the sleeping mat, Leesa had no idea. Inside the dim confines of the cave, there was nothing to mark the passage of time. The sun never poured directly in through the entrance, so once the morning had reached full light outside, the illumination in the cavern remained the same, a kind of pale twilight.They talked, held each other quietly, and talked some more. She drifted off to sleep at least once, she knew. She thought she could easily spend the entire day like this, wrapped up close to Rave with absolutely nothing to distract them, but there was a reason they had come all the way up here to the mountains of New Hampshire. And it wasn’t to lie around all day like a couple of love-struck teenagers—even though that was exactly what she was. She smiled to herself, thinking that if she wanted to get technical, Rave was still a teenager, too—in volkaane terms, at least.She leaned her head
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Leesa felt like slapping herself upside the head. She couldn’t believe she had forgotten about Rave’s fire—she should have known he would never have let them get into danger. Even worse, she had allowed herself to panic, thus cutting herself off from her magic. It was a lesson she hoped she never had to repeat.She pressed herself against Rave’s side.“I’m sorry. I lost my head there for a minute. It was stupid of me.”“Don’t worry,” Rave said. “It’s much too pretty a head for me to ever lose.”Leesa sighed. Her heart was still beating rapidly, but it was no longer from fear or panic. Not for the first time, she wondered how she had ever gotten so lucky.“Let’s see if I can finish what I started.”She held her right hand out in front of her. Just to be on the safe side, she kept her grip on Rave’s hand with her left hand.“Illum
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Late Monday afternoon, Cali lay stretched out on her bed, relaxing to Pink’s greatest hits CD. Pink was one of her favorite artists—Cali loved her rebellious, raucous lyrics and the way she wove swear words into her songs that you didn’t get to hear in the radio versions. Pink was shooting some guy down by telling him it was “just him and his hand” that night when a knock sounded at Cali’s door.Pushing herself up off the bed, Cali turned down the volume and crossed to the door. When she pulled it open, she was surprised to see BSI agents Smith, Jones and Rome standing there. Missi, a girl from the second floor, stood behind them. The three agents were dressed exactly the same as the last time they were here. Cali wondered if they each only owned one suit, or if they had a collection of identical ones.“Hello, Miss Farnsworth,” Smith said. “Remember us?”Act dumb, Cali reminded herself. “Yeah, sur
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Leesa sat on a wooden bench in a riverside park located on the outskirts of a small town about thirty miles from the caverns where she and Rave were staying. At this hour of the night, she and Rave had the park all to themselves. A bright three-quarter moon and a myriad of stars provided more than enough illumination in the deserted park. Rave had carried her here so she could call Dominic—while she could text from up in the mountains, the signal there was much too weak for calls. Of course, that particular inconvenience of their secluded hideaway was of no matter to the volkaanes.After infusing Leesa with some of his heat to help ward off the cold night air, Rave slid down to the end of the bench, far enough away to be no danger to her phone. As soon as he moved away, Leesa punched in Dominic’s programmed number.The phone rang a bunch of times. Leesa waited patiently, picturing Dominic rummaging through his magic wallet to find the phone amidst all the o
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The three agents watched her closely, expecting some kind of denial, but looking for signs she could be lying. Judy’s response surprised them.“Why yes, I did. Many years ago. Nobody ever believed me, though. How on earth did you know?”“Just a feeling I had,” Rome said, brushing off her role in detecting the magic. “Tell me about it, please.”“It happened more than eighteen years ago, when I was pregnant with Leesa. I got bitten by a vampire—a one-fanged vampire.”“You were bitten by a grafhym?” Smith asked, surprised.“Yes, by a one-fang, while I was hiking in Sleeping Giant Park. You know about one-fanged vampires?”“I’ve heard of them, yes,” Smith replied. “After all, the supernatural is our business.”Judy smiled a weak smile. “I wish you’d been around back then,” she said. “Maybe someone would
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