BELLAMY Luca set the last box down in one of the spare offices. He had just got back from packing up Kenzie’s studio. “Dude, what the hell did she do to them? They looked like they got scolded by the gods themselves,” Luca said with his eyebrows in his hairline. I tossed him a beer and laughed. That was a great way of explaining it. I watched all their faces as Kenzie spoke. She reminded me so much of Aunty in that moment which I believed they all finally saw. What she said made me fall even deeper in love with her. She embraced her place in our world without hesitation. I heard the conviction in her voice, and I knew that she would burn the world down if need be in order to protect our people. “They got scolded by Emma Jr. You know as well as I do the lengths she’d go to if someone disrespected her family or friends.” Luca winced at that because he knew it better than I did. He was her child after all. “What did they disrespect this time?” Luca sighed and ran his fingers throug

BELLAMY Tonight, I would be officially introducing Kenzie as my mate. The auction was a big to-do every year. It was always staggered so that those who were part of our world would be there at six while the humans would arrive at eight. Integrating within the human world was important, but we also wanted to have something for just us as well. There were always some items to auction off that were magical, so we needed to keep it away from the humans. Some humans knew about us. It allowed us to place our people among the community at large. Other than that, the rest were fairly ignorant just like we needed them to be. The way that Kenzie stood up to her entire family solidified even further that she belonged next to me. It saddened me that she was raised like a prisoner, and I had never seen it. I simply thought she was just reclusive. She thrived in the little bit of the world that she had seen of the past few days. I wanted to show her the freedom that she deserved, and tonight w

BELLAMY “$900,000 for the entire collection,” a woman hollered. Kenzie looked surprised with the gusto of the bidding. ‘You know damn well what your pieces are worth. Why did you ever let me value them so low?’ ‘Nobody, not even my family, knew about Avalara Key. Mom had been buying pieces for years. I never wanted to share something so personal with them. I know that makes me sound like a horrible daughter, but Avalara was always my escape from feeling so alone,’ she explained. I placed a kiss to her head. Her response tugged at me because it reminded me of how fucked up her life had been. No, she had not been tortured like her mother, but she was still alone and forced into seclusion. ‘It makes you sound human, not horrible. You’re not alone any longer,’ I promised her. ‘I know,’ she smiled and squeezed my hand. “1,000,000,” Tara said smugly as if nobody would bid higher. Good fucking luck. “2,000,000,” I said, raising my paddle. She looked at me, surprised because I rarely

KENZIE “They would use me to find this power,” I finished for him. Panic flashed through his eyes before it disappeared. He nodded and held me a little tighter. I could tell he was truly worried about this possibility. “Hey, we got this,” I assured him and kissed his cheek. “So, does this mean I can’t use my magic in public?” He shook his head and traced his fingers across my lower back to keep himself focused. We were both logical people for the most part. We saw problems and sought solutions. It served us both well so far, and it would serve us well in the future as well. “No, gorgeous. You can still use your magic. However, we can never let on about your heritage. If you must use a name to explain your lineage, use the Felonia line. That’s the bloodline on my father’s side. I have never publicly shared that I was a Felonia, so it should suffice. You too Luca. You share the bloodline as well.” Luca nodded even though I could tell that he still had not processed it yet. Luca was

KENZIEI enjoyed dancing with my fathers just like we used to when I was younger. It reminded me that this was my family, and family always had each other’s backs.Bellamy just chuckled and agreed when I asked him to drop me from a portal above Papa. He did not worry or think it was a dumb idea because he knew I would not do anything that was careless. I loved that about him.He let me be me and loved me for it.We had also been so caught up in the moment that we had not realized that my magic levitated us upwards. Bellamy always had that effect on me though. When he was in front of me, it was only him that I saw.I was surprised to see that at least twenty people showed up while we were caught up in each other.“I love you,” I told him, looking up into his mesmerizing hazel eyes.I leaned up to give him a chaste kiss. If I gave anything more, I would forgo this entire meeting and fuck him in my suite until he felt as good as he made me feel the other day with the car.My hunger and n