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It was tiet " With her shoulders shoved back, she turned toward the door, refusing to cry

Which was proving difficult - since she'd already fallen in love with Bowen MacRieve

Da me like this!

Bowe knehy she felt she had to leave She thought herself passed over yet again Both parents had deserted her, and then her first love had thrown her over

And I've told her there'd never be another female for me - then my mate showed up on my doorstep

But he hadn't made any bloody decisions, hadn't chosen Mariah over her

Regin hissed at hiht behind them As Carrow passed Bowe, she said, "Prick You and Twice-Baked here deserve each other"

Clasping his forehead with frustration, Bowe turned to Mariah "You re to a child "He and his neife are going to sit with you for a fewwill be fine"

Lachlain stepped up, his arhtly around Emma's waist "Aye, I'm sure you've questions - "

But Mariah seized Bowe's hand with both of hers "Please don't leave I'm so confused by all this By this place and tiotten how fragile she was "Ah, gods, please, Bowen"

Bowe glanced from her to the doorway Mariketa had just exited The witch was only going back to the bedroom I'll stop her before she tries to leave

As she stared into the dresser mirror, Mari wiped at tears with the back of her hand She didn't have to bid the reflection to coet just one answer, she decided to ask, "Aasped Apparently Mari was his - and he still passed her over! "Then what in the hell just happened?"

The hand breached the glass with an apple "Come with me"

"Damn it, if there was ever a time to answer more than one question, it's now! Tell me how this is possible!"

"Are you ready to know the truth?" the reflection whispered

"The truth about what?" Mari snapped

The reflection s that she finally was ready to go I have nothing to lose She was going to journey into that mysterious world of the mirror

She nodded "I arasped the offered hand She cli another dimension Here it was soft, a place veiled in one - because Mari was the reflection now? Doubt over her action ilanced over her shoulder, she saw Carrow and Regin rushing into the roo

Behind theathered on the sill

Ravens? Had she just gone willingly to her own doole Mariah, his heart felt like it sank to his gut - for the second tione

He tore away toward the bedroom, but of course, she wasn't there "Where the hell is she?" he bellowed at Carrow