Magic Thief by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Damian Reed

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“She’s mine?” Moira said as she paced in front of me in the living area. “She’s mine?!”

“Calm down, Moira,” I said, but it was no use.

“Don’t tell me to calm down, Dam!” She was furious and I knew exactly why. “Do I need to remind you what happened last time?!”

I looked up at her. “This is not it and you know it.”

“I don’t care. The last time you claimed a mate, you ended up signing your life away—for one hundred and fifty years!” She came and sat next to me on the sofa. Her bloodshot eyes suddenly turned soft. It made me very uneasy. “Dam, you can’t honestly still be that naive. You have to make her leave—right now, before this gets even more out of hand.”

Just the thought of it made me want to break something.

“I know what I’m doing, Moira. Sinea is involved in this whether we like it or not. The magic of the amulet is in her, and if we don’t get it back, we won’t be able to complete the job. It’s as simple as that.”

She arched a brow. “Really. As simple as that.” Her voice dripped sarcasm but I pretended not to notice.

“Exactly.”

Moira pursed her lips into a wicked smile and stood up. “Well, great, then!” she said with fake enthusiasm. “But just so we’re clear, when you admit that you’re lying through your teeth, I will not stand beside you when you sign your life away again.”

Her words were like silver blades right through my gut. She turned around and stormed out of the living area for the second time that night.

My mouth opened to call her name. I didn’t like it when she was mad at me.

I didn’t like it when she was mad, period, especially before she went to sleep.

But something stopped me. Her words spun in my head as she slammed the door to her room shut.

Closing my eyes, I leaned back on the sofa and breathed, hoping to calm my racing mind. Moira thought I was going to make the same mistake I made over a century ago, but she was wrong…was she?

She had to be. I’d suffered for far too long to fall prey to the old game. I knew better. I would do better.

Yes, Moira was wrong. Even if Sinea got under my skin like nobody else ever could, it was lust. It meant nothing, and it would be all over once we found the amulet and her brother.

It meant nothing.

Standing up, I grabbed my jacket and said, “I’m going out. Make sure she stays in her room.”

John was in his room and he’d hear me just fine. I ignored the need to check on Sinea, to see that she was sleeping even though I could hear her even breathing, and I got into the elevator.

I could control myself with her. Moira was definitely wrong.

The cold air of the night cleared my head in no time. A run was all it was going to take to get me back to myself.

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