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all agreed it would be best to hold off until you came to realize it.”
    “And now, with all of this crazy stuff going on, I can see where they were right. You could have easily fled,” Kace added.
    I nodded. “The thought has crossed my mind at least once,” I admitted, even though the thought was still fresh. Binks jumped off my lap and I brushed the fur he’d left behind off my sweatpants. “I guess I just really need to know more about how everything works now.”
    “Magick is interesting, isn’t it?” Adam asked with a wide, shit-eating grin. “You’re already addicted to the idea, aren’t you?”
    I rolled my eyes. “I don’t think I’d go that far, but I have to admit, it is intriguing.”
    “So let’s set something up tonight with everyone—a dinner or something. That way you can ask all the questions you want in order to grasp the situation better and make an educated decision,” Adam suggested, his shit-eating grin never dwindling. “Deep down though, we all know you’re going to stay. How could a person walk away from actual magick?”
    “Gee, you don’t sound power hungry at all.” I frowned at him. “But, a dinner sounds fine by me, if everyone can manage to get together on such short notice.” I was surprised by how calm I sounded. Inside, my stomach was pulsating in my throat.
    “Oh, I’m sure they will,” Kace said. His hand that had been splayed across my lower back began to move slowly back and forth in a rubbing motion. The warmth I’d felt intensified and I leaned back against him a little more. “Let’s say we all meet up here at seven?”
    “Seven it is,” Adam agreed. He stood and reached out for Callie’s hand. “Let’s go spread the word.”
    “See you guys later,” Callie said. “I’m glad you’re all right.” Her blue eyes locked with mine.
    “Thanks.” I smiled as Kace and I followed them to the door.
    “I should probably head home and grab a change of clothes for tonight and then I’ll be back.” He stretched his arms and yawned. “I’m beat. I don’t see how you slept so great. I was scared shitless that thing was going to come back.”
    “I don’t know how either,” I lied. I’d slept so well because I knew nothing Hoodoo could touch me now.
    “Do you want to swing by my place with me?” he asked as he stretched some more.
    I shook my head. “No, I think I’m going to stay here, make some tea, and eat something.”
    “We could stop someplace and get something to eat on the way,” he offered.
    I glanced at Binks. I needed to love on him some more. “No, I’m fine. Really. I’ll see you in a few.”
    “You sure?”
    “Yeah.” I smiled. “Besides, Binks is here to protect me.”
    I nodded in Binks’s direction. He was sitting at the entrance to the living room, watching the two of us. His tail flipped at a slow pace against the hardwood floor as he kept his greenish-yellow eyes directly on us. It was as though he had appointed himself my protector now.
    Kace cracked a smile. “You’re in good paws, I guess.”
    I chuckled a little at his corny joke. “I am.”
    Kace kissed me chastely on the lips before heading out the door. I stepped out onto the front porch to watch as his car backed out of my driveway and started down the road.
    Glancing around, once his vehicle was no longer in my view, I took in the beauty of Soul Harbor while inhaling deeply the salty, fresh air. Something from across the street caught my eye. It was as though there were ripples in the landscape of one spot in particular. I blinked and squinted, thinking my vision was messed up, but it still remained.
    And then it began to move toward me.
     

 

    My eyes zeroed in on the tear in my scenery, the wrinkle in the landscape of my view. It grew closer until it reached my Jeep. There it paused and I watched, mystified, while the green paint of my Jeep turned into a moving liquid as the thing continued to ripple and wave like flowing water before my eyes.