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in high regard and they gave Briella the same status. It was her duty to see her sister punished. Arianne had done this, but only Briella could repair the destruction. She cast a glance toward the direction of the castle. Stone and mortar had withstood invasions from many an enemy and would continue after her death.
    Thunder sounded in her ears. White lightning crashed through the night sky. She could smell the stench of nature’s fire thick in the air all around her. Her final act would spare them all more pain. She grieved for their deaths and her daughter, who would barely remember her parents. It was her fault. She should never have let love blind her to Ari’s conniving. Why wouldn’t he want her? She was so dark, just like him.
    The sky opened and rained its tears down on everything. She knew it was Daemon’s sorcery calling up the storm to stop her. Blasted weather witch! Finally, atop the hill she lifted her arms, exhausted. The long blue velvet robe she wore hang with drenching rainwater. Cold all the way through her bones, she wanted to give in. Heart pounding in her chest, magic racing through her veins, she saw what she’d come for, her circle.
    Her ancestors’ power pulsed through the ancient stones, making them glow a bright green. This was the only place left she could call on her magic and control it. Arianna had stolen her power and used Daemon to do it. Well, she could do something about that.
    Kate woke with a start in Ryan’s arms. In sleep he’d spooned into her back and rested his hand across her stomach. It felt so good to be held and treasured after so long apart from him. She wondered if Ryan might heal the scars she carried inside her body as he had with her heart. Devin had tried to heal her once, but after a few minutes without reaction told her the nature of the injury must be reversed, neither of them had wanted to head down that road.
    The dream bothered her. Why would she dream of the healer in Liv’s visions? Of the actual legend itself? Liv seemed convinced Briella, the healer, had visited her in dreams when she met Jack, but Liv had the gift of sight. Kate was as ordinary as Allie was powerful.
    Ryan snuggled into her back and kissed her bare shoulder. “Good morning.”
    “Good morning. I’d offer you to fix you breakfast, but the best I can manage is sugary kid cereal and coffee. I’m still an awful cook.”
    “Same here. Liv actually bought me a cookbook for dummies once.”
    “Did it help?”
    “Nope.”
    Kate laughed and turned into his embrace. “It’s close to lunch time. We could shower and go over to the pub. Skye has the morning shift today, so the food is guaranteed to be not only edible but to die for.” She leaned over and checked her pager. No missed calls.
    “Do you want to pick up Allie and take her with us?”
    Kate checked her bedside clock. “It’s Saturday. She has lessons with Devin from ten until two.”
    Ryan propped up on his elbow and the sheet slid down, uncovering his golden chest. “You really trust the wizard, don’t you?”
    “Yes. I’d trust him with my life, and I trust him with our daughter. Devin’s a good man. Ancient, strange, a little rakish, but good. I know about some of his past, the more recent years anyway. He would die before he’d let harm come to any of us.”
    “Then why are you letting those thugs bully you, Kate?”
    How had he found out about that? “Who told you?”
    “Ma. I won’t have you threatened. Why haven’t you called the police?”
    “Are you kidding? This guy probably owns half the officers on the force. As long as I pay him, he leaves Allie alone.”
    “What did you say?” Ryan got out of bed and stalked across the room, picked up his cellphone. He turned it on and started punching buttons.
    “He said if I didn’t pay off Mick’s debt he would go to her school and force her classmates to watch while he peeled off her skin. If I do anything to stop him, he’ll kill her outright.”
    “Men like