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Still Having to watch your boyfriend date other girls? Absolute torture! The thought of Riley with so past skin "Well, you could have called led a hand through his dark hair, all hint of a his expression "No, I couldn’t have I would have yelled"

"You’re yelling now!" And for no good reason, that she could tell

"Yeah," he said, still with that fury, but now, it was tinged with so low and raspy His eyelids dipped to half- the slope of her nose "But noe get to kiss and make up" Even his voice had dipped

Yes, please "First, ould you have yelled?" Clearly someone had told him what she’d done, but she wanted to hear hiuts "Second, we can’t kiss" She backed away fro until she hit the door The closer they were, the headier his wild scent became The closer they were, the better she could feel the heat radiating off him The closer they were, the closer she wanted to be "I need to get to class"

"Actually, you’ll have to ht now"

Uh-oh The words echoed around her, a threat "I can’t keep putting off ht now, but anything after that? No As you know, Spanish is et"

"I’ll tutor you later Si?"

Yeah, right Like they’d really pay attention to their books if they were alone in her room "No" The only other Spanish she could recall at the moment was: No hay tenedor limpio, tenemos que lavar la There is no clean fork We have to wash some

That wasn’t really applicable here

"Well, you’re not going to class until we discuss a few things Naht," he said, jaw clenched

And there it was The adulped "Yes"

"Alone"

"Yes How did you find out?"

"My brothers They followed you"

The tolves who tailed Penny’s car Of course She should have guessed

"They said you encountered a witch Tell er yourself like that?"

You are not the weak link You are not the freaking weak link "Did your brothers also tell you that I stayed in the car? Did they tell you Penny and I drove away before Marie could reach us?"

His nostrils flared in outrage "You know her naain, not a question

"Yes," she ading her in He’d done that yesterday, on the walk to school, and she’d loved it He’d kissed her, after all Now, he just looked like he wanted to choke her The funny thing was, she still loved it She had only to lift onto her tiptoes and she could kiss him

"A witch doesn’t need to be close to you to bespell you, Mary Ann" If he knew the direction her thoughts had taken, he gave no notice "She needs only to see you You were in danger the moment you left your house Do you not recall what I told you about spells?"

"I do," she said with a nod

"Tell th of her spine "When a spell is uttered, that spell becomes alive, its sole existence to fulfill its purpose There is no breaking it Ever Even by the witch who cast it"

As she’d spoken, his gaze had lowered and remained on her lips Tension had wafted from him before he’d snapped his attention back to her face "That’s right," he croaked "And ould happen if a different type of death spell were cast over you?"

"I would die twice?" she asked dryly

"Yes, smartie That’s exactly ould happen, and neither time would be pleasant"