A Secretary Affair
She had wandered away earlier when the fighting grew thick, overwhelmed by the chaos she could barely understand, and now she stood frozen, her eyes wide as saucers as she looked from one to the other.
First her gaze landed on the spirit of Sheara, translucent and glowing softly against the moonlight.
Then it shifted to the woman standing close beside Clint the one who had traveled with him all this time, the one who had introduced herself as Sheara too.
Lia took a stumbling step backward, her hands flying to her mouth as if to stop a scream from escaping.
Her eyes darted back and forth between the two, over and over again, as if looking long enough would make one of them disappear. But they