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MAC

You know those movies where lovers have been separated with no idea whether they’ll ever see each other again and, when they finally do, after harrowing trials and tribulations, they dash madly toward one another, and the filet to revel in that long, drawn outbreathlessly for their first passionate embrace?

That’s so not what happened with me and Barrons

Neither of usat each other His dark eyes gleamed with…I had no idea what because I couldn’t currently feel and had no way of identifying emotion But I chose to believe it was satisfaction, respect, and a "bloody good job, Ms Lane"

No one else in the boudoir lanced back at the containry tornado twisted and darted, flinging itself repeatedly at the walls

To no avail

I’d walked away from it I’d left the Sinsar Dubh behind, trapped forever, in its own private hell

I was unsatisfied with the outcome I would only be satisfied when it was destroyed

"You did it, Mac!" Jada exploded fiercely, punching the air

I had indeed But I was still reh a part of er part didn’t

I wanted to feel again, to drink in theof a new day I wanted to savor my hard-won freedoe to save our world I calculated the odds at slightly better than they had been

I could feel the unfa inside reat, now I have another uninvited thing insidehow extraordinary it was that by an unexpected twist of fate I’d beco

That was a serious plus in our colueus was alive with the souls of thirteen ancient Draghar inside him We had Dani’s and Dancer’s quirky, brilliant ic and the black arts

Yes, our odds were definitely better than they had been, with the Fae queen , and me possessed

I slanted my eyes half closed, sank within and eood, the bad, the pretty and not so pretty, and as emotion rekindled, I stared past the Sinsar Dubh’s prison, through the shadows of the king’s ancient, towering Silver to the wo bird perched on her shoulder

She ht I detected the faintest trace of sorrow in her lovely, iridescent eyes I could recognize elided to the now open door on the king’s side of the boudoir and exited through it without a word, vanishing into the White Mansion

The door swung shut behind her with such force that the floor shuddered and the king’s enormous mirror abruptly went coal black