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"Wow, what is that wizardry?""A percolator bong. Gives you a super smooth hit."Standing together in his cramped kitchen, it finally occurred to me that he could have been hitting on me by offering to smoke me up. I told myself that it was just a kind gesture until I caught Brannon gave me a once over, a gleam of something at once hot and cold in his eyes."Why're you moving out anyway? Moving in with your boyfriend or something?" He kept his voice casual, but I could tell what he was fishing for."Yes, actually. He's a tattoo artist.""Isn't that what your father does?"I was a little surprised he'd both picked up and retained that factoid. "That's how I met him.""One of his friends?""Not quite."Brannon had filled the bong with iced water and leaned back against the counter as if assessing me. He shook himself out of his reverie and flashed a silly grin. "Ready to spark this beast?"***After packing the bowl from his grinder, Brannon took the first hit and I watched bubbles expa
I gave them each a long hug after I'd packed all of my supplies and sketchbooks. Devasha and I both cried, saying we'd been apart for too long and together for too little, but when this was all over with we'd laugh together over drinks. The embrace I shared with Haku was emotional, but I felt more peaceful afterwards, like I knew we'd see each other again in happier circumstances.Then, for the sake of time, he dropped me off at my old apartment for the few things I had left there I still wanted while he got my essentials from Kiernan- which he assured me wouldn't be a problem. Sylas would pack his own things and pick me up again to go to the airport, posting our keys to my mother along with a letter he'd written."I'll be back in a few hours- call me if you won't be here.""Don't worry- I won't go to California without you. I promise," I avowed before we kissed each other good-bye.Being back in my old apartment, cold and stale in its disuse, reminded me of an archaeological site, wh
My father grabbed my arm and pulled me close, tilted my head up until I looked him in the eyes."What happened between us is because I love you- we love each other- and love is always a powerful force. For every moment of pleasure, there is a lifetime of pain. But the payoff is one of the purest forms of magic. You feel it?" He laid his palm over my heart to say here, down my sternum, over my navel, pulling up my skirt enough to get his hand underneath and cradle my pussy: Here."Yes." I melted into his touch, surrendering to his kiss, one hand over his heart, the other one running up the back of his neck into his luxurious hair. I knew I was falling right into his trap, but I didn't think one kiss would hurt.Before I could end it there, though, Kiernan's fingers slipped inside my panties, finding my slick, bare nerves and then I was off the floor and against the wall, my skirts rucked up powerless to his caress. I shrieked in his mouth, from pleasure and the realization that this wa
"Sylas is more devious than you know.""So are you.""If you would just let me-""Shut the hell up, Kiernan, and let the adults work," Sylas told him dismissively.My father clenched his jaw and his fists, advancing once more, but Devasha Rae intervened."Kiernan- drop it, we're in the middle of this spell."I trembled, afraid that he was already in a berserker fugue, but Kiernan actually listened to Devasha and unclenched his hands. I sighed in relief, pressing my head to Sylas' shoulder, my hand over his steady heart, while he patted me on the head. It was over- at least I thought. But when I turned around, he was livid on a whole other level."If you fucked my daughter, I swear to gods-""Kiernan!" It was non-confrontational Haku that had to rein him in now. "Seriously- drop it.""I am her father.""Yes- you are. Not her owner," Sylas said accusingly."And you're her mother's spurned lover. Oh, and godfather. Yes- I know about your last-ditch effort to bind yourself to Tess somehow
I leaned up slowly and kissed him much in the same way, running my fingers through his soft pelt of red hair. "I want you in ways too intimate, too special, for me to treat indifferently. And if you want me, please be honest, because it won't change how I feel- are you attracted to me because I look like my mother?""It might be my preternatural vision, but you look very different to me. Your beauty is wilder, thornier but just as lush; and you're stronger than her even at your weakest. But I still do love her- I can't stop that."I knew that Sylas was telling the truth, because with him there would be no more secrets, no more lies, no more wicked games and dirty tricks.I put my hand over his heart. "Please don't. It's one of the things I love about you so much."And we were kissing again, and I was taking off his apron because we were going to feed on each other first, and he peeled off my wet shirt because I had nothing left to hide.Sylas' body was even more beautiful than I'd exp
As disconcerted as I was, I wasn't actually frightened. I sensed no danger there, aside from knowledge. "I suppose I could stay a moment," I conceded, and found myself at the table opposite her without being able to recall walking over, taking out the chair and sitting down.Madame Clara instructed me to shuffle the cards five times. "Now, cut the deck."Once the deck had been readied, I slid it back across the smooth tabletop. She made a spread of five cards, placing the first in the middle and the other four around it going clockwise. Madame Clara flipped each of them over in the same order she'd laid them out: Three of Swords; The Moon; Ten of Cups, inverted; The Magician; Five of Wands, inverted. After refocusing her gaze, she interpreted my fate."You stand between two loves. One of them will promise to hold you forever, the other to set you free. Both of them will betray you to protect you, but neither will succeed. Only you can make the choice that will save everything you love







