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"Your ass is bigger"

"Unlike you, I believe eating is required to sustain life"

A coned to be har that drove Derek crazy when it caht Raina’s ht as well try to stop the rain fro down"

She tried to relax, but apprehension still knotted the roup between her shoulders when Raina closed the door, leaving her in a cha was in it except a polished oak pedestal and the burning candle sitting on it Though mundane eyes couldn’t see them, Ruby discerned the circle drawn on the floor, the sy thirteen evenly spaced points Symbols alsotheir placeant craft that had allowed an enclosed space for ic to ricochet and beco to do with a lack of confidence in Raina’s abilities Probably just the opposite Fantasies weren’t harer came from a black well inside her, and it took very little for it to boil forth Just being here, in Raina’s house of nonstop fornication, was enough to have it doing a clog dance on her uneasy stoht lid on it, but then yearning desire, a prettier but no less deer, would sneak up on her in dreah the day If it beca alcoholic, overwhel A quick trip out of town and a violent binge with Mikhael was followed by the hangover of shame and renewed resolve, couched in the battered lie that it would never happen again

In short, she spentupon the a drama queen This was just a favor for Raina A test Like she was in a laboratory, wearing a white coat, very clinical Of course, it was farthe white coat A sexy, tailored lab coat, ner Cheap synthetic blends had never touched those silken shoulders

Ruby put her hand on her abdo dance Okay, she could do this She’d fantasize about a long bubble bath with a good book The New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys would be serenading her froive her a foot and back s That would be perfect A perfect, safe fantasy

She positioned herself in one corner of the room She didn’t have to act as obliviously defenseless as most humans did It didn’t affect the activation of the spell, after all

Interestingly, the very moment she decided she was ready, the room darkened around the candle like aaround the flame and outward It closed in on her, took up all the available space She could still see the candle’s fla toward fearful s that were far fro up protection spells that would take out that candle with the force of a Cat 5 hurricane and blast away all of Raina’s painstaking work, she saw the mist start to clear

The rush of ocean waves reached her ears, the co her nose Powdery white sand was under her feet She stood on a moonlit beach, the water stretched to the horizon, the white curve of sand inviting long, ro between two palm trees On a table next to it was a platter of fruit and cheese, glasses of wine picking up the gliht

All it needed was a zoo, "Please drink responsibly"

But it was okay This was beautiful, serene Only the tineglasses bugged her One would be better, ned with the fantasy she had in mind Or a stack of the plastic kind, to accommodate both bands if they needed to wet their throats between sets for her private concert

When her gaze strayed back to the shoreline, her heart accelerated like one of thoseout of the water