A Touch Charmed (Zodiac Cove Book 2) by Sonia Hartl

Author:Sonia Hartl [Hartl, Sonia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zodiac Cove Publishing LLC
Published: 2022-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Finn

I woke up early to the feeling of my lungs being crushed. I didn’t hate it.

I tipped my chin down to find Thora clinging to me, holding me like she used to. Like she was afraid I’d walk out on her in the middle of the night. Something settled in my chest. A piece I’d been missing clicked into place.

Growing up, no one needed me for anything. I was a throwaway street kid who lost both of his parents to drug overdoses at age ten. I took all my adolescent anger and helplessness out on running small cons on dealers and stealing whatever wasn’t nailed down. Statistically, I was expected to be dead or in jail by eighteen.

I’d been headed that way fast until the day I tried to snatch Darla Wilder’s purse changed everything. Hank caught me by the neck, but instead of dragging me to the nearest police station, he took my scrawny ass to an IHOP and bought me pancakes. It was the first time someone had given me something without expectations.

After a few months and a lot of paperwork I didn’t understand, the Wilders brought me to Zodiac Cove and gave me their name, a family, a home.

It was an adjustment. A lot of people said they were making a mistake, that I would probably rob them blind and disappear. I picked fights with people who had more than me because that was the only way I knew how to survive. Wes was the first guy to fight back. He beat my ass, then invited me over to his house to play video games.

My dad put me to work, taught me the difference between earning and taking, taught me patience and how to get my temper under control. My parents showed me what it felt like to be wanted. But Thora had been the one who taught me what it felt like to be needed.

She looked at me like I was necessary, like I could be more than just a selfish asshole who didn’t know how to do anything other than take. And she needed to be wanted the way I wanted her. Wholly. Completely. Without conditions.

We filled the cracks we had in ourselves with each other.

The last seven years had given me a pretty clear picture of who I would’ve ended up being without her, and I didn’t like what I saw. Maybe now I could begin to mend the damage I’d done to myself. I could be the person worthy of loving her again.

My palm glowed with a pearlescent light as my magic flowed, satisfied and content to let me lay here with Thora twined around me. A clear light pulsed in a steady rhythm from her palm as she breathed evenly in her sleep. Our colors hadn’t combined.

After what we’d experienced last night, I was so certain I’d wake up with healing powers and a portion of her light. We’d connected emotionally. We both had the side effects under control and I felt more in tune with my magic, able to back down the speed at will.

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