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Sensing h it was hard to ers curled around the back of ently, “There are many what ifs, ht noe are powerless But if there is any possibility this witch can control the blue mist then we must speak to her, ascertain if she can control it and, if she can, convince her to use it to send us hoht at the sahed, Tor knew thatuys are totally cute,” Phoebe announced, shtly at us then her eyes slid to Tor “Dude, you are, like, crazy hot in a scary macho way but, still, you knoork the cute”

I couldn’t help it, I was freaking out but still, what Phoebe said , she jerked it up, looked at it and said to us, “Brianna,” then she flipped it open, put it to her ear and wandered back toward the kitchen ordering bossily, “Talk to me”

Then she disappeared

Then I heard Torout but also still unable to help it, I wrapped

Chapter Twenty-Five

You Hold the Other Half of My Soul

We sat in the coffee house; Tor resting back against his chair, legs straight out, ankles crossed, sipping regular coffee, calers of one hand tapping on the table while slugging back nancy – yikes!), not cal shot but wired like I’d actually had a shitload of caffeine

“Love,” Tor called and I turned o, he was taking in the bustling environs of the coffee house and the busy slick sidewalks outside with avid interest

“Yes?” I replied

He leaned in as his hand ca warht Cal for Brianna and her friend to show at the sa atvolunteered to hand Noc his packed suitcase personally and see if she could pump him for infor blue o wrong What if the world this Circe had been to wasn’t the Korwahk on Tor’s world? What if there were a bunch of worlds and Tor and/or es and th of tento alert Noc to the fact that all was not right with the Cora he knew and set hi that would not bode well for Tor andinvolved in any of this, especially not Noc investigating the other Cora My friend wasn’t exactly a super-sleuth She was an administrative assistant, like me And she couldn’t be swept away to a safe fairytale land, like me She would be stuck behind, maybe considered an acco

But Phoebe had no qual in and actually seeain, as I had mentioned before, Phoebe wasI wasn’t all fired up to be at thewith Cora but I was equally not fired up about stickingAnd, it had to be said, I had no interest at all in

“Tor –” I started, his eyes slid to the side and his jaent scary hard

I looked to where he was looking to see aat s as he passed by Tor moved, the man’s eyes moved to Tor, his face blanched and he hurried away

I looked at Tor to see hihteningly at the ers

“Honey,” I called softly and his gaze sliced to , Cora, I do not like the arowled