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Chapter 81

[Alexander]“Wh-who are you?” I blinked my eyes, the light filtering in from the doorway too bright that it hurt my eyes. I recognized that I was standing inside Valerie’s room, while she was fast asleep and I was awake. It was the door exploding apart that woke me, but what was strange was that it never woke her up.A loud roar billowed into the room, and the angelic silhouette cast in white appeared to walk through the door, its shape becoming more regular, but with a flowing white robe covering its frame. The face was human - but not quite like anything I had seen before. I squinted my eyes, trying to get a better view, but the bright white light hurt my vision.“Alexander Young,” The voice was bold and influential - a male voice. I trained my eyes to see its face, but whoever it was, wasn’t familiar. Their eyes were as white as ice, their hair like straight icicles, with the tips pointed to their shoulders. The pointed nose and

Chapter 82

[Valerie]My parents were elated by my decision to go back. I must admit, I didn’t have enough pleasant memories linked to this place to give me real joy about coming back. But the hand holding mine firmly gave me the courage I needed to walk through the dean’s office with my registration forms.Layla had reason to accompany through those doors. She had asked for a transfer to Hillside College, on the basis that she wouldn’t want a pregnant woman left alone. I was glad she was here with me, and her having a dorm room meant that I had a place to crash on the odd weekend when I needed some fresh air.I had told Layla what had happened. It had been three days since I last saw Alexander, and since then I hadn’t heard a word from him. But I had my best friend - who was quickly becoming more like a sister to me - to keep an eye on me while I completed the last semester and got my degree, hoping that greener pastures awaited me on the other side.

Chapter 83

[Alexander]To say the least, I was bewitched by what I was reading, strung along by every single word between the pages of the leather-bound journal. I had truly lost myself in it. I had barely slept a wink in almost three days, unable to shut my eyes while Alice’s words were stuck in my head.Was it her words alone that prevented me from putting the journal down? Or was it the promise of what those words could bring. Hope. I was clinging on to a promise of hope. I was already halfway through. The page I turned was the one that held the pages to the spine, and by then, Alice had found out she was pregnant with Elijah’s child.“My pregnancy is different, much different from anything anyone has ever seen. I’ve been with child for two months, but my rotund belly has stretched so far in front of me that I can no longer see my own toes. I am tired - tired of walking, tired of tipping a glass to my lips. Elijah has been great, and ensures I don&rsqu

Chapter 84

[Valerie]The beige cashmere dress Layla borrowed me hugged my belly like a second skin. I hated showing off my growing pregnancy, not because I was ashamed of my child, but because I didn’t have the answers to the questions about who or where its father was. In the few days I resumed college, I noticed the stares every time I took my coat off, and didn’t appreciate the whispers that drifted to my ears. Even those who were rather friendlier with me now grew suspicious when I didn’t have the answers to their questions, so I was hesitant to go to this party they were throwing in my honor.“You are beautiful, Valerie,” Layla peeped out from the bathroom, steam from the shower she just had seeping out from behind her.“Hm, I’m not sure,” I mumbled as I turned before the full-length mirror, “I mean, don’t you think it’s a bit too tight?”“Nonsense!” she shot, padding into the room with

Chapter 85

[Alexander]We hit a breakthrough, at last. It was just as Mother Selene had said - the witch, Camilla, would lead me towards a way I could protect Valerie and our child.My phone was buzzing on my lap, and for the umpteenth time that week, I ignored the call. It was my father. I wasn’t sure if I could trust him with the information that my mate had once been his target - a hybrid child. For all he knew, she was lost in the fire, just as he had planned. And until I was sure that the spell in the journal - a spell that had not been tested yet - could work, and most importantly, if Valerie would be willing to try it out, I had little desire to speak to dad.I had clearly seen the fear in Valerie’s eyes - fear not for me, but for my father, who was responsible for the death of her parents. In all honesty, it ate me up with guilt, knowing I’d have been old enough to understand if only I had known. Perhaps there was a way I could have stopped my father. B

Chapter 86

[Valerie]I woke up to the sound of bleep-bleeping, my ears and mind waking up before my eyes did. I blinked frantically, adjusting my eyes to the unfamiliar brightness of some room I was in.A sharp pain seized my temples, and when I shut my eyes again only to regain some semblance of stability, I opened them again to find that I was laying down on what seemed to be a hospital bed. I confirmed it when I tried to shuffle into a seated position, and the restraints of a thin tube that disappeared into the top of my hand made it difficult. I followed the pipe with my eyes to where it was hooked up to a drip stand and realized I was in a hospital.The clothes on my back were not my own. All around the shirt were little blue circles bearing the hospital name, and I lifted a piece up to my eyes to read what that name was. San Ramon Medical Cen. I was in Danville.Groaning, I sat up on my elbows, feeling the way my throat was dry. On the bedside table was a sealed bottl

Chapter 87

[Alexander]“Well, congratulations, Alexander. Your mate is expecting twins.”Dr. Singh’s revelation played in my mind over and over again as I paced the hall. I wondered what was taking Amelia so long in there, and if everything was fine. By the look of pure joy on Dr. Singh’s face, I knew that Val was okay, but still, I worried.Layla had left the waiting room to take a call. On any given day, I would have wondered who was calling her this time of the night and would even have grown suspicious. But I had learned that the witches weren’t really our enemies and warmed up to the idea that she and I could be friends. After all, we both had Valerie’s best interests at heart.Adam must have been able to leave Pleasant Hill to go home. He’d given the journal to Amelia, who had passed it on to me before she went in to check up on Valerie. I had to admit, I felt as if I needed some checking up on myself from the way my cheek tin

Chapter 88

[Valerie]As soon as I learned that Alice was carrying twins, I felt a spark of hope. Not because soon after her story ended in tragedy, but because the journal didn’t end in empty pages. There was hope.Our stories were hauntingly familiar, so the thought of ours ending the way theirs had, did scare me. I had just finished the last bit of her entries tonight and turned to Alexander to question him about what happened next.He was where he’d been most of the day - sitting on that chair next to the hospital bed. Sometimes he’d drift off into the deepest, soundest sleep, and I’d get to watch him, just as I did now. If there was no threat of us being found out - or me being found out - I would have chosen to spend the rest of my life watching him sleep like this, his face becoming near-angelic, his lips parted ever-so-slightly, and his thick, dark lashes fanning his cheeks. He must have sensed that I was watching him, and his lips curled into a sm

Chapter 89

[Alexander]“You’re taking me back home?” Valerie sounded disappointed, even though her voice was much firmer than before. I wanted today to be a surprise, and despite the forlorn look she’d given the sign that indicated we were fifteen miles from Pleasant Hill, she was trying very hard not to give it away in her voice.“Technically, we’re just passing through.”“Passing through? Then where are we going?”“You’ll see,” I was quite chuffed with myself, having been able to keep this particular secret from her, even though it had been on my mind for so long, kept me up at night ever since Amelia helped me pick out the perfect style. I’d been planning this for quite some time, and today seemed like the perfect moment. But first, there was something I needed to do.“Where are we going?” Val asked as I headed towards Pleasant Hill Cemetery. I cleared my throat, trying not to

Chapter 90

[Valerie]I guess you could say I was more excited about Layla coming over than I was looking forward to Alexander’s visit tonight.It wasn’t because I wasn’t excited to see him again. In fact, we’d just seen each other the night before, when he urged me to read my mother’s part in the book.---We’d been sneaking around for almost a week. Between classes and when my day ended, we saw each other. We could barely keep our hands off each other, but the best part? We couldn’t keep our eyes off one another. It was those endless gazes, those silent moments, those featherlight grazes of our fingers on each other’s skin, that curled my toes and left butterflies in my tummy. With every day that passed since the day he asked me to marry him, we were finding it harder to stay apart.It wasn’t until last night when he promised to come over to see my parents, that he urged me to finally get around to reading the rest

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