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
I followed the trail of thoughts leading all the way back to her panic when Vin called her and told her Gabe was leaving her. I started a bit at the knowledge that Amaya even offered Raina her companionship and protection. But Raina refused. Instead, she marched over to Gabe’s home hoping to figure
**Gabe's POV** There was a ringing in my ears as Evelina’s words resounded in my head.Pregnant? That was impossible!“Amaya knows,” Evelina mumbled, jerking her face away from my hands and moving to untie Raina. “Amaya knows because Raina was too afraid to tell anyone else. And she needed help. So
Lorenzo looked quickly at Raina again. “I would never take my child away from his mother. Do you really think so little of me? Or did you just want to stay the mistress of Diablo?” He glowered at Raina. “I was never good enough for you, was I? Which is why you didn’t want to take up the position as
**Gabe’s POV** I would have loved to say we lived happily ever after. Like in the books and fairytales. But unfortunately, real life was not like that. How could we live happily ever after after losing so many people? Vin was gone. Alpha Xavier was too. And so were countless of the best warriors an
Everyone bowed their heads in the clearing of the moon goddesses temple. I wiped the tears from my eyes. We had lost many good people in the war against demons. But Uncle Tony was right, their legacy would live on with us. We would never forget how bravely they fought. Claire, Aunt Alyssa and Uncl
Still, I reached out a hand, hoping to do something. But when I tried to heal him, even I could tell it was useless. There was nothing left to heal. He was gone. Cellular regeneration could only happen if the body was still alive. “No,” Uncle Dylan rasped, reaching us in the hospital room. “No. Not
**Evelina’s POV** Uncle Xavier had always been the leader. The one everyone looked to for guidance. He had stepped up for his younger siblings when his father passed away. He was only eighteen then. By extension, he had stepped up for the children of his siblings as well. Tia Melanie told me that
Asmodeus bowed his head.“I have commanded them to fall back and have begun to seal the portal. They will be sucked back into the portal at the devil’s sinkhole.”And that was when I saw him clinging to a lone tree left standing in the wake of the chaos that this mountain had endured. His arms were
With a surge of power, I launched myself at the fallen demon, my hands glowing with a brilliant golden light I was airborne, my ring of fire remaining around me, eager to attack at my command. As my fist struck him, the power of my assault sent Asmodeus flying backward.But my victory was short-live
Despite the fear that seethed within me, I stood tall and threw back my head, letting out a war cry that echoed throughout the night. "I don't care who you are or what you think you are," I retorted, my voice trembling with determination. "All I know is that you've hurt the people I love, and I will
“NOOOOOOO!!!!” I screamed out, the bright yellow light rippling all around me as I screamed my heartbreak. My father was gone! Hot tears rolled down my cheeks as I clung to him, crying out in anguish.I would give anything for his warm embrace one last time! Anything. In his shadow, I had always fel