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OK. So it was a prison, but not quite like I’d thought. “Don’t think Strix would want me along,” I said. He’d told me never to set foot in the Nether Reaches again.
“Well, you’re wrong,” Lucian disagreed. “He asked for your help, specifically. In spite of the danger you pose.”
I wasn’t so sure about that, and I wasn’t so sure I was going to agree, not with everything I had going on. I had that sketchbook to decode, the ring to understand, the Fallen Ones to avoid … and the Mindbreaker to evade. And revenge? Yeah, revenge was still all wrapped up in there. I wasn’t like Lucian, seeking solely justice. Yeah, I wanted justice, but I wanted more, especially now that I knew Emilio really was …
Enough of that. Right now? Sleep was the highest priority. My eyes were beginning to shut, all on their own.
“Right,” Lucian’s soft voice rumbled. “I told him you were dead on your feet. Get some sleep. Who knows how long it will be before you have another chance. I’ll give you the rest of the details in the morning.”
As he headed back to the couch, I stopped him with, “You take the bed. I prefer the couch.”
He paused and altered course, murmuring, “As you wish.”
I stretched out on the couch, but the instant my head hit the white leather, a spasm of pain lanced straight through my skull.
Uh-uh. Nope. I wasn’t going to let the Mindbreaker muck with my head. Not when the cure slept just a few feet above my head.
In a flash, I zipped up the stairs to my bedroom.
The dark-haired warlock had already thrown himself on his back into the middle of the bed. He didn’t acknowledge my arrival, he remained as he was, staring at the ceiling, one muscled arm pillowing his head.
Climbing into the bed next to him, I said, “Move over.”
He didn’t. His dark brows ascended instead.
Oh well, his problem. I didn’t care what he thought. I just knew I needed relief. Dropping my exhausted body practically on top of his, I slid my hand up through his shirt and rested my fingers against his warm skin. Burrowing my head into his shoulder, I closed my eyes, savoring the blessed relief.
Whatever happened next … I’d just deal with it. Right now, it was time to sleep.
The End
Cassidy’s next adventure, titled “Rebel” is already in the works, but before that comes out, catch Elizabeth Rowle’s story in “Latchling Blood Moon”
Latchling Blood Moon – A Cassidy Edwards Novella, Book 3.5
About the Author and Other Books
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Like many of us on this planet, Bestselling and Multiple Award-Winning author Carmen Caine is from another world. She spends every moment she can scribbling stories on sticky notes that her kids find posted all over the car, house, and barn. When she’s not busy working as a software engineer or writing stories, she spends her time texting her kids on an insanely small, Keebler-Elf-sized keyboard (yes, she hates cell phones), trying to convince her Doberman that being jealous of the new Frenchton puppy just isn’t worth it (no luck so far), and tending to the barn full of animal misfits, including a runt lamb who sneaks inside the house and a rescue llama with a bad attitude.
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Carmen Caine Collections and Other Books
The Bestselling Cassidy Edwards Series
A vampire/witch/warlock series about revenge with a touch of humor and a sizzling romance.
Monster – Cassidy Edwards, Book 1
Spellfinder – Cassidy Edwards, Book 2
Mindbreaker – Cassidy Edwards, Book 3
Latchling Blood Moon – A Cassidy Edwards Novella, Book 3.5
Highland Blood Moon – A Cassidy Edwards Short Story, Book 3.6 – for a short time this will be available in the set “Taming the Vampire”
Rebel – Cassidy Edwards, Book 4 is in the works
The Glass Wall – A Contemporary Paranormal Faerie Romance Series
A four book series of a different kind of Fae and a 17-year-old girl discovering the many shades of love. (Young Adult)
The Glass Wall Series (Complete four book set)
Triple Gold Medal-Winning Novel: Heather House
Tales of witchcraft in sixteenth century Scotland.
Heather House: Witch of the Moors (IPPY Gold, Ben Franklin Gold, Readers’ Favorite Gold)
Heather House: Witch of Threadneedle Street – coming soon
The Highland Heather and Hearts Scottish Award-Winning Romance Collection
Four full-length novels of Medieval Scotland. This set includes the two Award-Winning novels ("The Bedeviled Heart" and "The Daring Heart") along with the first book Carmen Caine ever wrote: "The Kindling Heart".
The Hearts Collection – Four full-length novels