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We all just stood and stared at one another

I broke the silence “Going to have to face her eventually, aren’t I?” They didn’t answer er at Devin “One day, if not now, she will discover that I exist and she will co down the street not expecting it Don’t you get it? This is ht”

“She has a point there At least…I’ we all have to face and be done with Now is as good a ti, “eventually, Allora will realize your bride had a warlock brother and she will come forand stop it if I can”

“So, now the question is, hoard the place with both Mrs Tunny and Davis watching?” I said

Jeres in their ti, and read the o to the office I’ll be back in time to walk the perimeter with you, Bobbie”

I watched him leave and turned to find Devin had stepped closer to the clear wall between us He put his palht to the death and knew it There was no running, and we knew it

Even with the shield between us, a spark sizzled froh the barrier, a spark like I have never felt before, and it went zapping through my blood, and made my breath hitch

“Did ye feel that, lass?” he asked huskily

“Feel it? It almost knocked me out, yeah, I felt it How is this possible?” I asked, feeling heat course through low deep in the recesses He is a vampire, I told my stupid heart A vampire

All at once he said, “I can s…”

I was The wound I had ht had opened up How could he smell it? “Whoa,” I said to ease the fact that this was startling “How?”

“Tell me, lass…when ye were in yer ed with excitement

“My mother was there in my head This was the first time I have ever heard her She left me a er Devin, I…found enorical powers, but I only tapped into theh,” I said more to myself than to him Had I absorbed a power I would be able to call on now to help Devin?

~ Thirteen ~

I STARED AT DEVIN as hts tumbled into one another I had heard my mother whisper a word, and that word exploded out of , “Ramabien”