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And when she’d come three times, I wrapped her in my jacket and carried her to our bedrooain

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Jocelyn

My heart beat with a steady, almost calht and full in the ht sky, and it washed over y booster My powers simmered in my veins, poised and ready to burst

I should’ve been more nervous

I should’ve been shaking with adrenaline or terror or a coo into battle, for Goddess’s sake, and aside fro up for anything of this scale in my life

But, thanks to one of Luka’s well-placed olves intercepting aan attack on lycan territory tonight And, thanks toon steroids because of my new hybrid status, I’d been able to trace my mother without any effort, and she was on her way to Lycan territory too, just like we’d assumed

And, even though we’d planned this and strategized it to death, it didn’t change the fact that any second we’d get a signal fro to kill my mother

Notmore than the witch queen the second she tried to shred ain more power

Fuck her She’d regret ever trying to killway? Goddess, I’d make her suffer

“Are you ready for this?” Benedict whispered in my ear He’d already asked me the question a dozen times, and I answered him the same way each time

I looked up at hiers as I let him see the absolute calm overwith panic right now, or ht now? All I was ready for was to get this over with To ensure the safety of my new family, and my sister when it was all said and done

“We’ll finish this,” I said “Together” I squeezed his hand for e either of us time to breathe

I could sense his worry through our bond, despite hi full well I could handle myself And I couldn’t blaht too Not just hatever the Sons’ brought in way of weapons, but fro any other witches with her or not, but if she did? It would certainly be e