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Sassy’s face must have blanched, because her ladyship reached out for Sassy’s hand “Oh, my dear … you are white Has he stepped over the line?” She clucked her tongue “I see that he has No,” she said, her voice firer” Lady Margate looked troubled as she stared off for a moment

“Oh, my lady …” Sassy was not sure what she could say What would Lady Margate think of her son if she knehat he had tried only last evening?

“I aers “I should have realized what he was about”

“Oh, he ested, “Perhaps I am a bit too shy …”

Lady Margate did not comment on this, but her eyes held a sad expression “No need to make excuses for hiain as she made up her mind “Very well Go for a walk, and I shall immediately put quill to paper …”

It was a cool htly about herself as she walked in the Margate gardens while trying to sort out her juhts Netherby Halls? She felt excite useful

She had turned one and twenty a feeeks after she had lost her father, and with herwas nearly cohts bounced off one another, and hts

Her ic that would begin to seep into her mind and into her blood She had spoken of the responsibilities that came with it Like all the women in her mother’s line, Sassy was a white witch, but her mother had told her she was meant for more, so much more What did that mean?

Her ic’s intensity had passed over herself but had landed deeply etched in Sassy’s inner being Now Sassy kne true that was, for she could feel it growing inside her

She had used it without thinking last evening with Sir John To her surprise, she’d not been frightened, only disgusted

Without calling on it, her ic seemed to take foric seemed almost to work itself No wonder herits use

She touched her ring, which her iven her in place of a wand before she passed Its stone centered in the gold was iridescent and unique Engravings in the gold could not be read by an outsider and looked like a n

The ancient Gaelic word Solas, an innocent word that if seen by a ‘clear’ huht, to her family meant so much more

All at once, the face of her dream lover flashed before her eyes He see to her Oh, but the heat that rushed through her whenever he came to mind It just had to stop …

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