To Caress a Demon's Soul_A Story of Love and Magic by Nadine Mutas

Author:Nadine Mutas [Mutas, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998238883
Google: USB9tAEACAAJ
Publisher: Nadine Mutas
Published: 2017-08-11T16:01:46+00:00

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Muscles trembling, Anjali heaved herself up the last stretch of rope and grabbed hold of the window sill. With an undignified huff, she pushed until her arms stretched and she could swing one leg over and into her room. Need to work on my wall scaling skills. Well, not that she ever thought she’d have to climb up the side of her family’s house and sneak into her own room on a regular basis.

But that was exactly what she’d done the past two nights. Pretended to go to bed early, stealthily left home once everybody else was asleep, and then crept back unnoticed before the break of dawn. One could think she was some unruly teenager up to no good, not an adult witch of twenty-two. But with a family like hers, where everybody was in each other’s business all the freaking time, and privacy was a concept redefined to mean the short moments when you had to use the bathroom, what else was she to do?

She landed on her floor with a thud, scrambled up, and peered out the window. There, leaning against the maple tree in front of the house, surrounded by swirling shadows only her eye could pierce, was the reason she acted like a love-struck juvenile. She waved at Thorne, and—apparently assured she’d gotten home safe and sound—he smiled, nodded, and headed back to the city.

She watched him walk down the street, below the faint hues of dawn on the horizon, and her heart was filled with the strangest mix of bittersweet pain and glowing joy. She’d spent the last two nights with him, stolen hours in the dark, and the more she’d learned about her shadow demon, the more she’d fallen irrevocably for him. He pulled at her heartstrings. He made her burst with happiness. And above all, he wrapped her in such tender affection, she felt cocooned from all harm. The way he looked at her, touched her, with such wonder and devotion it unhinged her.

They could make this work. Somehow, she’d find a way to gently break the news to her family, and she’d make them see that he was good, that he didn’t mean harm. Merle got the witch community to accept her demon lover, so why couldn’t she?

Not for the first time in the past two days, her thoughts wandered to her best friend Maeve’s older sister, and how the new Elder witch had fought and won for the right to keep her demon by her side, officially and untouchable as her husband and mate. It gave Anjali hope, made her dream of a future where she, too, could proudly have Thorne in her life, out in the open, not as a secret lover she had to sneak off to in the dark of night.

She changed and crawled into bed, the exhaustion of staying up most of the night—Thorne hadn’t let her get much sleep—pulling her under right away. For a few too-short hours, she caught some much-needed shuteye, until her

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