Surprises

"We knew it would happen." Gary glanced toward the house and the healing grounds that lay underneath. "I reinforced the safeguards, above, below and all around her. Levon can't get to Elizabeth."

"He's trying."

"He'll keep trying. He's addicted to her." Gary sighed and shook his head. "You realize that Darknesss had a splinter of Xav in him. No way would the high mage allow himself to die by lightning. It's in Levon now. Two of them. He'll have more memories and skills to draw on. He's going to make an even more relentless and powerful enemy than he did when he had Darkness with him."

Damonq nodded. "We'll just have to make it too difficult for him to continue to snoop around looking for Elizabeth. The woman deserves peace. You don't think he can wake her and call her to him, do you?"

Gary shook his head, a slight smile curving his hard mouth. "I thought of that when I put her in the ground and commanded her to sleep. He can't break that spell, not even if the high mage was working ful