LOGINHe leans down and kisses my lips softly. "It's perfect. I've missed smoking as a ghost. And the cane is perfect as well.""My turn." Kiarr rips open his gift and lets out a triumphant yell. "A polished bull horn for mead-is it spelled too?"I nod. "Yes.""Ye don't know how happy ye make me, Brene. B
"You sure you're ready to do the same for Gwen?" I whisper. "She's a handful."A blush colors his cheeks and I wind my arm through his. "Yeah, I am.""Not so fast." Angelic pushes through the crowd. "She can borrow this and I'll walk her down the aisle.""Yes. I'd like that." I beam.She holds out a
Though Kiarr has his sword strapped to his side. Each looks so serious and my heart does a little flip at seeing them. Both Decan and Walsh are standing by them too.I look to my friends, tears in my eyes. Melanie rushes up to me with Jolene. "Here, we'll take these.""Wh-what's going on?"Ben strol
Three months later, I squeal when Ben and Kiarr pop into the room. "Hey, you're not supposed to be in here yet." I shove their presents under a pillow. "No peeking or you'll ruin the surprise."Ben looks abashed, but gives me a sly smile. Kiarr leans an elbow on the top of my dresser with a lazy gr
"Have I hurt you?"I shake my head before I can form the words. "No. Just intense.""For me as well." His eyes meet mine. "I will not be able to take my time as I would like. All of me wants you and I won't be able to wait.""Me either." I lift my hips slightly so that my sex is pressing against his
I hurt all over, but I open my eyes and try to sit up. Everyone in the circle is knocked down. Even Ben and Kiarr who had been helping hold me up are unconscious.Then gray eyes look down at me. "Did you sacrifice all of these people just for me? And I thought you were a good witch.""Jacques." I wr
I know his name at once. Jacques. Goosebumps break out across my flesh. My heart and soul cry out the name as I repeat it like he instructed. Willing him to come to me. Willing him to help me. Willing my soul to go back into my body.Jacques!Lightning rips through me. I scream. Pain strikes every p
"Never mind." I swallow, chills sweeping over my body. My gaze went from his face to the granite angel statue a few feet away in the graveyard. "Just get me to the leyline and I can get help from the academy like a spell or something.""Magic cannot cure this." He clasps my hand, and his thumb strok
"Gwen?" I whisper, hoping that the vampires got bored with me being unconscious and left. I can't make out anything in the darkness past my arm. Gwen had been with me in the leyline crossing over from the Academy, but I haven't seen her. She has both my ghosts, Ben and Kiarr trapped in that purple p
Zane's heart pulses against my hand. I close my fist on it the same time that Jacques does.His eyes meet mine. "Unleash your magic."The other vampires dash forward, trying to pry Zane off me. I can't let them. If they run they'll only try to come back and kill me. Maybe even go after Aunt Grace an







