“You begged me to stay. You even got down on your knees and asked me to marry you,” Evelina said with a watery smile, her arms around my neck. I arched an eyebrow at my beautiful, powerful, and utterly adorable witch mate. “You never answered my question.” “I was interrupted,” Evelina countered.
It made sense now. Why the documents had been sealed regarding her mother’s parentage. Sinclair hadn’t been trying to hide the father. He’d been trying to hide the fact that Evelina’s mother was born to a surrogate using Sybl’s eggs. I’d heard the dark witch was some kind of crazy, but this took the
Evelina let out a resigned sigh. "I put everyone else in danger too." She hung her head, shame coloring her words."Do not think like that." I looked at her seriously. “Evelina, I want you to tell me what happened from the time you escaped from my car, back in Texas to the attack that occurred at
**Evelina's POV** My head was still reeling from what Gabe had hypothesized. All this time, I was carrying the Sacred Flame and didn’t even know it? But how the hell was I supposed to open it? It was locked. Maybe there was a spell? A spell in the book Sister Agnes had given me. That had to be it!
“Evelina!” Kirsty cried out from the far end of the room.She was sitting in a chair with her hands tied behind her back. Her lovely blond hair was in stringy dirty clumps. Her usually perfectly dolled up face was streaked with mascara tears.“Evelina, please, help me! You’ve got to believe that I w
“This ‘weak human’,” I snarled, waving my fingers dangerously close to Kirsty’s face. She would have winced if I hadn’t frozen every part of her face except her lips and eyes. “Is the one holding you restrained. I don’t need ropes,” I hissed, my flaming fingers now passing a mere hairsbreadth from h
I released Kirsty from my mind probe, and from the hold I had over her body. Kirsty fell to the floor in a heap, trembling uncontrollably.“Y-y-you….you’re not an o-ordinary w-witch,” Kirsty croaked out fearfully. “You..YOU….” She scooted back, bumping against the chair she’d been tied to. It clatte
“I didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt,” Kirsy whimpered. “I just wanted her gone before you returned…so I could be here to comfort you and-and–”“Idiot!” Gabe snarled, his eyes glowing yellow. “You’re part of the reason my proposal was ruined!”Kirsty’s eyes widened, Raina’s gasp was audible despite