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“I don’t even know who I am anymore. I feel like I’m drowning in them. Joaquin with his walls, Javier with his fire—I can’t catch my breath.” Jessy tugged me forward until my forehead rested on her shoulder. She smelled like tea and vanilla lotion, grounding and safe. “Then stay here. No brothers. No contracts. Just you. You don’t have to figure this out in one night, Haven.” The sob caught me off guard, muffled against her hoodie. “Thank you.” “Always,” she whispered. Then, because she couldn’t help herself, she added, “Also, for the record, you’ve got both Greyson brothers wrapped around your finger. That’s peak romance-novel heroine energy, babe.”

Before she could ask, Jasper’d smiled and said, “I’m a little psychic. It comes and goes, and I can’t control what I see so it’s worthless.” “Not worthless,” she’d assured him. “You just need to learn how to harness it.” “Perhaps,” he’d said with a slight shrug, “but I have more pressing matters at the moment.” “I can contact the coven through the web,” she’d offered, “but you’ll still have to find a way to get me out of here without a bodyguard.”

She'd been doing it since Chapter 2 and I'd stopped noticing how valuable it was until recently. Jess was in the kitchen with Emma Chen. I stopped in the doorway. Emma had a notebook open on the table and was asking Jess something I'd missed the beginning of, and Jess was answering with the specific directness she used when she'd decided to take something seriously. They looked up when I came in. "She's been asking me what it's like," Jess said. "From the outside. Being human in this situation." "What did you tell her," I said. "That it's mostly administrative," Jess said. "You spend a lot of time updating your understanding of what's possible and very little time being actually surprised an

Just as I was thinking hard, I stumbled upon Jess on the school hallway. "Oops! She screamed as two of my books fell to the ground. She quickly picked them up. "Here. I didn't see you." She said handing over my books. "Thanks. I have been meaning to talk to you." "Ah!" Jess shouted suddenly. I was startled. "What's wrong?" I asked. "What is that hideous thing around your neck?" I crossed my arms. How dare she say something like that? I felt offended. "Its a special gift and it may look hideous to you but to me its perfect." I defended.

THIRTY: JESSICA'S POV I watched as Willow grabbed the book from Emily enthusiastically. I didn't know she loved to read this much. She stretched her hands to the stool beside her and grabbed her glasses. I thought she was just being her playful self when she had earlier asked Emily to pass the book to her, but right now? It looks like she is serious. In no time, her fingers flipped the book cover open, adjusting her glasses with her free hand. “A Mystery Romance," she said with a shy giggle. “Ohh I'm so going to love this read!” She continued flipping to the next page.

But how? Tessa tilts her head, a flicker of confusion shadowing her eyes as she reads my expression. I swallow and force myself to calm. I have to make a plan. A plan that might involve speaking with Kieth and telling him everything. *** “Hey princess, you got a minute?” Jace asks as I’m finishing up another chapter of my book in the yard. His broad frame shades me from the hot afternoon sun. I look up at him. “Sure what can I help you with?”

Getting books was hard out in the country. Jessie puttered around the room, cleaning. The quiet work gave her time to calm. The time slipped away as she worked. Her back was to the door. The sound of the door startled her. She’d been in a meditative state. With a strangled squeak Jessie turned around. Alrick was dressed in different clothes. Her momma would have said Alrick cleaned up nice. It wasn’t fair. Her body betrayed her and reminded her of what she’d had. She wanted more. Never mind the humiliating feeling afterward.

Jess Oh my goddess there is blood and people everywhere. I was so not made for this kind of thing. This foul smelling swamp demon is after me and I have no idea how to really fight. Trent is working so hard to keep me protected and I just feel like a burden and distraction that keeps getting in the way.

Jessica’s POV I stood in the middle of a clearing, wrapped in suffocating darkness so thick it felt alive, pressing against my skin like an unseen force. A chorus of whispers slithered through the air, seeping into my mind, threading through my thoughts like poison. I strained to decipher the voices, but they were like a flood—murmurs overlapping, drowning each other out. Then, a single voice cut through the chaos—sharp and haunting. "I told you you'd be mine, Jessica."

Janessya comments. She is the only one of the women who didn’t have a doctor's appointment today. I felt bad not going with Sapphire to hers, but she told me it was nothing more than a check-up and that she would be fine. Dad had found out about the appointment, and he had one of his guys drive since she still shouldn’t be driving alone. As predicted, she argued about that, but I won the argument in the end when I told her that Dad was the one who had the guy come and pick her up. She still wasn’t happy, but she dropped it and climbed into the car. Janessya kisses Riley and then heads off to her job. She is majoring in music, but she is a fantastic dancer. She teaches at a local dance