Hidden Magic by Amy Patrick

Author:Amy Patrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford South Press

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Macy

I couldn’t respond, only shake my head slowly side to side, my mouth opening to speak then closing again as no words formed.

I still wasn’t convinced this wasn’t all a dream. When the knock at the door had woken us, Anders and I had assumed the worst—the Ancient Court had found us, and we were trapped, twenty-four floors above the ground in a room where the windows didn’t even open.

It was only when Estelle had mentioned that first life-altering kiss with Nic that I’d motioned for him to unlock the door. He didn’t like the idea, but he’d thrown on a shirt and done it anyway while I’d shrunk into the bed, bracing myself to see the face of Nic’s twin and the inevitable pain that would cause.

But when she’d stepped to the side and Nic had entered the room, all anticipation, all fear, every thought had flown from my mind, the empty space filling with heart-stopping shock.

For a split second I’d thought that perhaps Estelle was an Ancient Court agent and had shot me or done something else to end my life instantaneously because it was the only way my mind could explain the sight of him before me—so real, so physical—so beautiful. Not like the hazy memories I held of his face and beautiful form. I was in the afterlife, and paradise was being with him again.

But then, no. He wasn’t a spirit. His sparkling dark eyes, his thick, unruly hair, his tan, touchable skin, the thick muscle of his body—even the delicious scent of him—it was all undeniably corporeal.

Only in my dreams where I was once again able to touch him and hold him were my memories of Nic this vivid and tangible. So that was where my mind went next. I was dreaming. The entire sequence of events from the knock on the door to Nic approaching the bedside were part of a sweet, torturous dream that would wake me crying and haunt me for days to come.

And then he’d spoken—said my name. His voice, so lovingly remembered and desperately longed for all these months, was the sweetest sound I’d ever heard.

And when he touched me, it was like epinephrine had entered my body at the sight where skin met skin. The adrenaline flooded from that point throughout my bloodstream, waking me fully, bringing me back to life when I hadn’t even realized I’d been a walking, talking dead person all this time.

That new life was accompanied by such a flurry of emotions I wasn’t sure my heart would ever stop racing. Perhaps it would adopt this Elven-like speed as its own, and my pulse would finally be a match for Nic’s.

But now Nic was saying things that had me re-examining the dream thing. A nymph? I didn’t even know what that was.

“Nymphs are extinct.” Anders voice sounded dazed and very far away. I couldn’t see him, unable to pry my gaze from Nic’s face in front of me.

Estelle was the one to respond to him. “That’s what everyone believed.

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