"He's unconscious now anyway," Charlie said, stepping forward as she looked at Cyrus. "What is he?" His identity was no longer a secret. We had been discussing his powers for a while now, so everyone in the room knew he had magic. Those that weren't in the room would know because he had used magic
Tobias was reading over my shoulder, and he gripped the back of my seat. It was right there. There had never been a break in her chair's lineage. Her ancestors would have been a part of the genocide that wiped the Earth of the male spell casters. Cora wanted to keep magic controlled by women, by h
Tobias's P.O.V. She had been hunched over the table for hours, staring at a smaller map covered in pins from the list of locations, trying to find a connection. Everyone who had been helping had long since gone to bed, deciding it would be safe to take a break for the night and come back with fresh
She watched me closely as I got it wet and wiped her face slowly and carefully. The fabric slid across her smooth skin, and her breath fanned my face as she sighed when I moved it down her neck and across her chest. "Baby, I really don't have the energy to fuck tonight," She whispered, and while I
Whatever she needed to tell me, I could see on her face that it would knock me off my feet. "Tobias, please just trust me." Using my name made her plea for understanding and patience sound like an ominous threat. I closed my eyes, unable to look at the pain on her face any longer if I was going to
Joselin's P.O.V. Tobias held me tightly that night, and what was supposed to be an hour-long power nap ended up being a full night's sleep. I had a moment of panic when I realized how much time I had lost. We were lucky that nothing had happened with Cora while we were asleep, and I couldn't risk w
I would have to look at the bigger map later to see if there was something in each location I had been missing. He smiled at me before kissing the top of my head and going back into the bathroom. It was only a minute later that he was done, and I was being pulled from the list once more and dragge
I hadn't realized I had been surrounded by so many families, chosen or by blood, until recently; it wasn't until I started thinking about having one of my own. "She means to say that we get it, but you should know by now that we would never turn on our people," Margot said with a sickly sweet smile