Then again, he’s getting better at it as well. There’s magic inside him, and I’m helping him develop it, just as Shira helped me.
There’s magic inside Eddie as well, deep magic, untouched.
And Nancy. I confess that I felt a pang of jealousy when I met her. Silly, I know. But there’s a bond between Luke and her, a deep bond that I can sense but that I don’t yet fully understand.
Of course, I know about Dania’s advances to him. But she and I have become good friends. I kind of owe her for helping save my life.
It’s been only a month since my miraculous appearance in his bedroom after the warehouse battle. I didn’t have a lot of stuff in LA, but it was a bitch to get it shipped over here to Florida. My landlady wasn’t impressed.
But as my own body traveled through space and time, so did that of many others: Shira, Karolyna, the other witches. They are gone.
Ronald contacted me. He is not the zombie he once was, and Shira had left him with instructions to protect me if anything ever happened to her, to give me access to her house and her funds if I needed them. He had no memory of the violent night that he and the others had almost taken me on. Zombies, slaves—they had been completely under Shira’s mental control on that night. But he did have some slight memory of the times he and Shira had been together, something she was probably unaware of.
He loves her. And he’s always loved her. And love is probably the only thing which cannot overwhelm memory.
I sense the demon energy in the air here in West Rocks, the soft whispers of darkness from the Gulf breeze that none of the humans can hear.
Luke hears them, too.
I know Nancy does as well, in some portion of her mind, but she hasn’t acknowledged her powers yet.
When she does, we’ll be here to help her cross to the other side.
Luke is surrounded by magic, by beings related to his duties in the other world, duties now slowly being relegated to this world. As with me, little in his life has been coincidence.
I hold his hand under the table at Ally Joe’s. Eddie’s our waiter today. Luke has the day off. I rub his muscular leg and can’t help melting when I look into his eyes.
There’s a warmth around him, a kindness underneath the killing machine that he is.
Like a typical man, he asked me once to show him some of the “kinkier” aspects of magic.
“Kinky?” I had asked.
He blushed, not wanting to elaborate.
I don’t know any kinky magic. But Luke’s touch needs no magic; it is magic in itself; the way he finds me and slides upwards so sweetly between my folds that I’m gushing by the time his touch leaves me. The way he whispers in my ear as he enters me, chants of power and darkness as his mind fills mine during our acts of love. There’s magic in how he turns me, presses his chest down on my back while he maneuvers himself inside me.
And there’s magic in his eyes, his lips, his tongue.
Kinky? No. So much more.
So much...better.
Book Three? Four?
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UPDATE: I have decided to go ahead and publish at least a third book for this series. The book is already available for pre-order at selected online retailers. Please search for “Mind Games Book Three” or “Mind Games Rachel Dunning” to find it.
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What follows is the original text of this section before the update above:
Thanks for reading Mind Games #2.
I’m really interested in writing a Book Three, Four, Five for this series. Much of what you read in the epilogue is already plotted out—Roxy’s role and the coven she’s formed, Nancy’s hidden abilities, Eddie, Ronald, all the other characters. But it all depends on people’s interest.
If you’re keen to read more about Crystal and Luke and all the other beings in this series, send me an email at [email protected] or let me know on Twitter (https://twitter.com/RachelDAuthor) or Facebook (http://bit.ly/RachelDunning).
I hope you enjoyed this tale. It was my first Paranormal Romance. My older stuff is all contemporary romance. I fell in love with this genre. I mean, really fell in love with it. And I’ll be sticking with it for a while, whether in this series or in a different one.
Thanks so much again for reading. I love chatting to readers about anything and everything, so send me a mail sometime, OK?
Love,
RD
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Losing Johnny, #2 Johnny Series
Taking Johnny, #3 Johnny Series
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East Rising, #2 Naïve Mistakes Series
West-End Boys, #3 Naïve Mistakes Series
Deep South, #4 Naïve Mistakes Series
Red-Hot Blues, Standalone Novel
Like You, #1 Perfectly Flawed Series
Know Me, #1 Truthful Lies
Find Me, #2 Truthful Lies
Need Me, #3 Truthful Lies
Christmas Comfort, #1 Hot Holidays Series
Easter Sundae, #2 Hot Holidays Series
Girl-Nerds Like it Harder, #1 Girl-Nerd Series
Girl Nerds Like it Faster, #2 Girl-Nerd Series
Girl-Nerds Like it Deeper, #3 Girl-Nerd Series
Girl-Nerds Like it Longer, #4 Girl-Nerd Series
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