I had finally opened my heart and laid out everything that had taken me long to realize. Quanah was broken, I could see it, but that’s not why I said it all at once, was because I knew we could be apart again tomorrow, and now he would know that I loved him even if we were separated.He slid his hands down my abdomen, contouring my waist and tearing my blouse over my head. His hands flew to the bra clasp as his mouth attacked me again.I felt his warm palm against my naked breast and could not contain the groan, I pushed my breast against his hand, wanting more of his touch. Quanah trapped the nipple between the forefinger and thumb and spun it, felt it right in my cunt, which pulsed in response.I moved my hip, wanting to feel his erection, needed some relief and only he would give me this the right way. I got up in a hurry and he understood the message, his hands held the waistband and he pulled my jeans hard, taking my panties along. I almost fell as he tore off one leg, then went

"What were you doing down there?" Quanah asked as soon as we returned to the room. "I thought you was asleep." "I couldn’t fall asleep and went down for some milk." I sighed realizing that even there I wasn’t safe. "I didn’t think they’d try to attack me in here, much less that people who helped raise me would do that." Quanah stroked my back, trying to console me somehow, but my head still turned to the moment Kalina undone the spell and unmasked Agnes. "I’m sorry this happened." he kissed my hair calmly, showing a side that I did not know he had, a caring side and totally dedicated. "Unfortunately I can not tell you that this will change, your power is too great and this will attract people from all sides, people who won’t always want your good." He was right, more and more I began to think that I was not safe anywhere, first Nikolai used Seth to get to me and now the witches used Agnes to try to take me to them. What would come next? "She was like an aunt to me, how did she

I was in shock and out of breath, my heart was almost running out, I couldn’t breathe enough air for my lungs to work right and almost fell back. "Bridget, I think you’d better sit down." Quanah warned me holding tighter against him. "No, I need to know!" I wouldn’t leave until I had all the answers, however difficult and painful they might be. Kalina pushed the shadows back, ending Agnes' shouting, while we stared at her waiting for more answers. "I don’t know if you are one of those children who were visited with this power, I didn’t know there were any left." Kalina said and stared at us with those empty eyes, the black immensity consuming us. "Bridget obviously has a unique power and I can feel the nature of her magic touch mine, after all she is pure black magic, the same one I invoke, and I feel impelled to bow to her power. But you Alice, I can’t feel anything." "This can only be one more of her lies, must be saying all this shit just to get rid of torture." "Listen

Kalina approached Quanah and raised her hands toward his face, but I stopped her halfway, whatever she was going to do to him I wanted to know before. "It’s okay, Bri." he muttered, wanting to give me a confidence that even him didn’t have. Maybe I didn’t really want to know whether or not Hades was in his head, reading his thoughts. "That won’t hurt you." Kalina assured me. I shook my head and even reluctantly lowered my hands, letting her hold his face and rummage through his head. Quanah got his eyes black as night, just like hers and I sighed trying to be strong and not end it all ahead of time. But this time it did not take as long as with Agnes, perhaps because Quanah did not resist her invasion, she quickly got her answer and turned away, but the expression on her face made my heart hurt. "No! Say it’s not true!" I screamed, even if I didn’t know everything that would imply I knew it wasn’t a good thing. "Unfortunately it’s true, Hades probably made some connection to hi

I had explained to Nik everything that Kalina had managed to wrest from Agnes, about the witches, my power and Hades. He was in the carpool seat, Flora had insisted on driving and made me lie in the back seat. I tried to protest at first, but she was right about me being weak and needing to rest, because the whole scene of those burned people made me put out everything I had managed to eat this morning.Now I needed to keep my strength, since we didn’t know what we could face.I turned around trying to find a comfortable position that would at least help me rest, but it seemed impossible. In the half hour we were there, I couldn’t close my eyes.Luckily from Kittery to Boston it was only an hour and a few minutes, or I’d go crazy. Certainly with the mood I was in, I couldn’t travel for hours like Peta and Alice would do, who had a long sixteen-hour road.I started trying to think of all the good things that had happened in recent months, it was something my mother had taught me since