by K. F. Breene
She shrugged. “Yeah, I guess. That didn’t stop me from telling him I was moving out soon, though.”
“Oh? Where are you going?”
She gave me a funny look. “With you, dummy. To New Orleans when you finally get up the courage to tell your mom. I told you. I can edit anywhere.”
“Oh.” I frowned at her. “I might be staying with someone, though. I’m going to learn…how to better…tell fortunes.”
“To do magic. Don’t act like I didn’t see you doing magic, Penelope Bristol. I saw freaking monsters running around! I told you, I was just inside the doorway. My hands were tied, but I could see everything.”
“Oh. Right.”
“Stop saying ‘oh.’ I’m coming. Face it.”
“Oh…kay.”
She nudged me, laughing. “Anyway, has Emery contacted you?”
I’d told her all about the sexy, handsome, supremely hot-bodied man who’d fought by my side—her words. She’d become fascinated by him and his quest for vengeance (though, thankfully, she contained her swoon out of respect for me).
My hand drifted to my jeans pocket. The letter I’d found on my nightstand crinkled as my fingers pressed against it. I carried it everywhere.
I’ll think of you always. -Emery
My heart swelled. Then I thought about what my mother had said the next morning. “If you love him, set him free. If his heart is truly yours, it won’t stay gone for too long before it finds its way back to you.” She’d paused, letting that sink in, before ruining the moment. “Just don’t wait too long. You’re not getting any younger.”
Heat prickled my eyes and I shrugged with one shoulder. “No. I don’t expect him to. He’s fighting some demons right now. He needs to sort himself out.”
“A troubled hero. God, that’s hot.” She threw a finger up at me. “Do not tell me not to—”
“Don’t say the Lord’s name in vain.”
“Gah!” Veronica put her hands up into claws. “You hate being like your mother. Why do you say it?”
I laughed, but my laughter was cut short by the sight of someone skateboarding down the center of the sidewalk, right for us. “I can’t help it. Oh my gosh, it can’t be… It can’t be, can it?”
“I do not believe it. That is Billy freaking Timmons! What the heck is he doing here?”
“I thought my dad said you moved to these parts,” he said when he got closer. His stupid face wore a big sneer. “You should be in jail, whack job.”
“Why are you here?” Veronica demanded.
“I work downtown. I figured you’d keep up with your nerd-fest. Look at you. You’re such losers.”
Veronica pointed at his skateboard. “You took the bus in order to stalk us and call us losers on a skateboard? How can you possibly have all this confidence?”
“Whatever, jailbirds.” He flipped us off and pushed off on his skateboard.
“That is such bull.” I stared after him, in complete disbelief. Magic tingled my fingers, begging for release. No one was around.
In a blast of frustration, I sent a magical lasso—one of my own creations—after him, catching his legs and yanking. His legs flew out from under him and he fell forward, hitting the ground face-first and skidding.
“Oh sh—” Veronica covered her smile with her hand, her eyes wide.
I looked around worriedly, not able to help laughing. “Hurry, let’s get out of here. I don’t want to get in trouble.”
“Serves you right, you turd,” Veronica yelled at him. We turned and ran, his yelling about witches and cops following us up the street.
“Magic has its uses,” Veronica said.
I had to agree. It was a crazy new life in which I’d found myself, but I already loved it. And soon, I’d really learn what I could do when I tried to control it. My time of hiding in closets was finished.
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Learn more about Reagan, Darius, Callie and Dizzy in Born in Fire, book one in the Fire and Ice Trilogy.
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Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don’t have many options.
So dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old as sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day.
Knowing I’m poor and desperate, he has offered me a job. I’ll have to work by his side to help solve a top secret case.
Everyone knows not to trust vampires. Especially a hot elder vampire. But without any other jobs coming up, I’m stuck. As I uncover a web of lies and treachery, revealing an enemy I didn’t know existed, the truth of my identity is threatened. I might make it out alive, only to end up in a gilded cage.
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Also by K.F. Breene
Magical Mayhem Trilogy (DDVN World)
Natural Witch
Natural Mage - coming soon
Fire and Ice Trilogy (DDVN World)
Born in Fire
Raised in Fire
Fused in Fire
Finding Paradise
Fate of Perfection
Fate of Devotion
Warrior Chronicles
Chosen
Hunted
Shadow Lands
Invasion
Siege
Overtaken
Darkness Series
Into the Darkness
Braving the Elements
On a Razor’s Edge
Demons
The Council
Shadow Watcher
Jonas
Charles
Jameson
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About the Author
K.F. Breene is a USA TODAY BESTSELLING author of the Fire and Ice Trilogy, Darkness Series and Warrior Chronicles. She lives in wine country where over every rolling hill, or behind every cow, an evil sorcerer might be plotting his next villainous deed while holding a bottle of wine and brick of cheese. Her husband thinks she’s cracked for wandering around, muttering about magic and swords. Her kids are on board with her fantastical imagination, except when the description of the monsters becomes too real.
She’ll wait until they’re older to tell them that monsters are real, and so is the magic to fight them. She wants them to sleep through the night, after all…
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