**Evelina's POV**My heart pounded in my chest as I watched the strong gust of wind propel Gabe’s body through the air, careening straight towards the hard wooden altar table. The impact sent a sickening thud echoing through the quiet church. A lump of dread formed in the pit of my stomach, eyes wid
From the sky, a man dropped down smoothly. He wasn’t cloaked like all the other dark witches I’d seen so far. My eyes narrowed as he towered over me.“It is time to fulfill your destiny.” He spoke the words ominously. Clear evil blue eyes trained on me. Three more witches dropped down behind him, al
The witches before me pulled their hoods back, smiling in triumph.“It is time!” One of them declared with glee. “Decades of waiting and—”I dropped to my knees, my right hand touching the ground, my left still cupping streams of water dancing around my fingertips. The entire building began to shake
I blinked, head pounding as if someone had taken a jackhammer to the plates of my skull and was spreading them apart.“Don’t tell anyone yet,” I ordered with as much authority as I could muster. “I need…” I trailed off, closing my eyes and trying to concentrate on healing myself slowly. It was harde
**Evelina’s POV**“M****a!” Gabe cursed, sitting up and looking around, an arm thrown across me as if to hold me back.He still thought we were back in the church.“It’s OK…we’re safe.” I gently pushed against his arm, trying to move it away from my chest, but he wouldn’t relent.Waking up, his firs
**Evelina's POV**“Probably one of the witches from the roof,” Vincent supplied. “They were aiming for you.”Gabe distinctly muttered under his breath that the attack had come from behind. He looked at Amaya again with…was it suspicion? I hoped not.“If I hadn’t gotten there in time, they might’ve d
There, laying just inside the entrance door, was my papa, an empty bottle of alcohol tucked into his side as he lay passed out.“Who got him alcohol!” Gabe roared.All of the men exchanged uneasy looks.“He snuck out to the bar when we were busy trying to pick up a trail on the witches,” Luca explai
***“I got in touch with Alpha Lorenzo’s beta as well, just like you instructed.” Vincent’s words pulled me from my musings.We were on a jet. Gabriel must have plenty of these if one exploded two days ago and he already had another one available for us to travel on. Papa was snoozing peacefully, hi