All Chapters of Fire: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Time seemed to stand still as I sat next to the road holding Christian in my arms, his head lolled to one side and the pain seared through me. My own blood dripped onto his face and I felt a hand on my shoulder.“Kiran, you need to let go.”I turned my head sideways and looked at the police officer crouched next to me. Two paramedics stood right behind him and I let go reluctantly. One of them shone a light in my eyes and said something but I couldn’t focus.They were looking for a pulse but I already knew. Death had taken him from me and I’d never before hated him as I did in that moment. One of the paramedics looked back at me and I could see the pity in her eyes.“Sir…have you been drinking?” It was another police officer that had asked me that, someone I didn’t know.“No.”My Jeep was written off and I looked back over at Christian where they placed a blanket over him while two other officers made markings in the road and took photos of the scene. I took a breathalyzer test just a

The day after Christian’s funeral, I closed his bedroom door, I couldn’t walk past it every day and see his stuff. I also didn’t want anyone to change or move anything in it. It was his room.I woke up in the mornings and felt like the walking dead. I let James take over completely at the hotel and I hadn’t been there in weeks. Adara needed to get back into her routine as well so I took Kai in the mornings.We would sit in the study and I would read while he slept on the couch next to me. I’d feed him and change him before immersing myself in Karani’s diaries again. The pages were now revealing themselves to me.I looked at Kai as he slept and then I glanced over at that stuffed dinosaur that was now sitting on my desk. I touched the talisman around my neck, it was ice cold to the touch, but I always felt the flow of magic from it.I closed my eyes and I concentrated. I saw the flame in my mind and I touched it, it didn’t burn me. I was drawn to the flame and the words just came. “I c

Dezrael’s pregnancy had been a relatively easy one but she hated every minute of it. The bigger her stomach grew, the more Sean distanced himself from her. She could understand his irritation but not his distance.She had been eight months pregnant when Sean’s anger was finally given a voice. “I don’t understand why you had to do this!” He was pointing to her stomach and Dezrael had just about had enough.“I told you why, Sean. My reasons haven’t changed. We discussed this before I went to Alaska.” She could feel the resentment coming from him.“No, Dezi, you talked and I listened. I had no say in this and that is really hitting me hard.” He was still looking pointedly at her stomach.“It’s almost over, Sean, just a few more months and then our life will be perfect.” She had second thoughts now. Would Sean really stand by her through all of it?“You’re already a strong witch. Why do you need another witch’s power?”Dezrael was getting irritated now. “Because power is everything!”Sean

Karani had given me all the tools I’d need to succeed. The magic that now formed a part of my soul had strengthened and I could feel myself growing stronger each day. The book she’d left me had a carefully thought-out plan, a way for me to kill Dezrael without dying.“You have to be careful with the spell I will reveal to you. It will enable you to kill a witch without killing yourself. The Norns showed me a woman, she was cutting out the liver of her baby, later to be revealed, your baby. She performed the spell unsuccessfully and she went into a Seidr trance and saw your first child. In the realms of Vanaheim, I will have no power to use, and I’ll be unable to stop her. She took my magic through your first-born and then drained your life force from you.”I had read that part so many times that it was burned into my memory. I had used the moon for illumination and had pulled on her powers instead of candles. For fire I had used the green fire that I conjured up in my hand. I found th

I pulled my phone from my jacket pocket and my finger hovered over Malachi’s name. I didn’t have the strength for a lecture from Jessica and if I called Malachi, she’d know and she’d come with him. I wasn’t sure if I should leave Dezrael’s body here.I didn’t really know what else to do. I didn’t even know if there was a spell for this and a surprised smile appeared on my face when I thought about it. A spell to clean up a murder site, it was almost funny. I pressed the green button and closed my eyes.“It’s Kiran…yeah, I know.” Shoran said something else I couldn’t catch and then the background noise disappeared. “Sorry, Shoran’s mom is on a trip again.”“I’m in deep shit, James.”“What’s wrong?” James’s voice was all business now.“I need help.”I gave him the address and ended the call when he said that he was on his way. I tried to think of everything I had touched and grabbed a cloth from the kitchen counter. I started wiping the doorknob on the inside and then on the outside.Ja