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"What?" She asked groggily "What’s wrong?"

"Well, where would you like us to start, with the heavy breathing, the sensual asmic way you called out yourto her face as she re about

"I didn’t know you had it in you Sal I roaned as she covered her burning face

"It’s okay Sally It isn’t your fault that your ," Jacque piped in

Sally’s head cairls Her eyes found him immediately The flames from the fire reflected in his eyes and danced around the hazel iris With a wicked glearin he mouthed, "Your irls still watched She closed her eyes canceling out their curious stares as she muttered, "Check mate"

Chapter 13

"How did we get here? I’ve asked myself that question et caught up in the chaos of our wants, desires, and forgets that there are consequences to each of our choices I sit withthe path that we are on and have no idea how to juet here? I know the answer, but I a of the Pixies

Ainsel stood staring through the trees towards the last known location of the veil to the underworld The location Mona had showed hi back on his word, and the longer he stood there staring, the reement had been

Dae, the captain of his warriors, asked, "Are you well ?"

"I am as well as can be expected in tiriht under the tension

"You are only doing what is necessary to care for your own"

Ainsel looked at Dae He was not only a warrior, but also a friend "At what price? Are the lives of others worth less than ours? At so what is necessary, is right, and if it is not then is it truly necessary?"

Q

"You really weren’t expecting him to help were you?" Lilly ask Cyn as they stood in the human realm, just beyond the Veil to the Elves

"The Elves are a secretive race and do not give their loyalties lightly They have never before entered into the affairs of the other supernaturals,"

"That is not a true stateh the Veil Following closely behind hied, all as tall andbehind Thalion when the parade finally ended