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Chris reached behind hial pad for each of us, then put the cup with pens and highlighters in the center of the table

Adrian snatched up the naave you this one" His dark brown eyes ith wonder as he looked through it

With all the scribbling, I knew the book was different, but I wasn’t sure what that meant "What’s the deal? Why is it all handwritten?"

"It’s a Book of Shadows"

Whoa I’d heard of those Only because I watched Charuilty pleasure

On the show, the Book of Shadoas a faeneration "I didn’t know people had those in real life"

He carefully closed the book and ran his hand over the cover "Yep Every fas At least that’s what I was always told It gets passed on to the oldest child froeneration"

That didn’t make sense "Newsflash I’m not the oldest in my family Axel is And I’m pretty sure Claudia and Raphael are older thanMaybe it’s not the oldest, but the most powerful?"

I moved uncomfortably in e risk by giving ainst it

Adrian opened the book again and Shannon scooted closer to him to read

I started with Chapter One of reat inforic was a test of one’s will and faith But none of that specifically helped Meredith When I had a few days, I’d start at the beginning, but for now, I flipped to the back of the book

The index had an entry for "breaking curses" That soundedit and things got interesting For all intents and purposes, the book i with anyone else’s curses was a bad idea Apparently it caused ‘adverse effects,’ which included illness, wasting diseases, and painful death

That sounded like a bunch of not cool