She knelt next to them, placing a hand on each of their wrists, and then delved into the grove to feel the magic of the grove rise up. As it did, she fed it into Lex and Amelie helping them bridge the divide between them and feel each other’s feelings. Given that she was the bridge, she could feel their love. In Amelie, there was anger and hurt—a lot of it. With it, Scarlett felt hero worship and adoration. She felt moments of intense loneliness where all she wanted was her Daddy and the aching pain of having been abandoned by her mother.
But in Lex—it was regret for moments lost, it was fierce joy in the good times, and it was an unequivocal tide of love. Not even a tide, but a flood of it. Scarlett could have drowned in that love, that determination to be better this time—it was repentance for what had gone before. He had changed. Scarlett had no doubt that he adored his daughter and would be an excellent father to her.
“Oh,” Scarlett said. “Oh.”
And like that, with one breath, she fell, face down, full and completely into love.
THE END
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Coming Soon: Christmas and Curses. The holidays—druid style.
Coming in November: Spells and Jinglebells. Just like with Witch or Treat, Spells and Jinglebells will include hundreds of pages of short stories from great paranormal authors. This book is coming in November, will be $0.99 and include another short story from Harper’s life.
The Mystic Cove Mommy Mysteries
Bedtimes & Broomsticks
Runes & Roller Skates
Costumes and Cauldrons (found in the anthology Witch or Treat)
Banshees and Babysitters
Spellbooks and Sleepovers: A Mystic Cove Short Story
Hobgoblins and Homework
Gifts and Ghouls (found in the anthology Spells and Jinglebells)
Christmas and Curses (coming in December)
The Zinnia West 1950s Mysteries (co-written with Christina Hill)
Zinnia West & The Corpse Served Cold
Zinnia West & The Corpse Burnt Crisp
The Rue Hallow Mysteries
Hallow Graves
Hungry Graves
Lonely Graves
Sisters and Graves
Yule Graves
Fated Graves
The Inept Witches Mysteries (co-written with Auburn Seal)
Inconvenient Murder
Moonlight Murder
Bewitched Murder
Presidium Vignettes (with Rue Hallow)
Prague Murder
Paris Murder
Murder By Degrees
Curses of the Witch Queen
Fairy Tales Re-Imagined
Song of Sorrow: A Prelude to Rapunzel
Snow White
Kendawyn Paranormal Regency Romances
Compelled by Love
Bewildered by Love
Persuaded to Love
Other Novels
These Lying Eyes
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