Page 169 of Blue Moon Mistress

But when she presses her palm flat against the surface and raises it to me… I hesitate.

“It won’t be like last time.”

“I know.”

“Then you will have to set your fear of me aside in order to get them back. I know you don’t trust me. I know very well what you were taught. But if you want them back, this is the quickest way.”

I blow out a long breath. I have to do this.

It’s not about trusting her not to bite me while I’m under…

With a quick nod, I step forward and sit on the ground in front of her.

“Good luck.” Her palm presses against my face, and I fall back.

I fall through the ground and lose my tether to the mortal plane.

Thirty-Four

The last timeI’d fallen through the veil, it had been a sheer accident.

This time… it’s not any better.

Cold sinks into my skin and my bones ache.

Thistime, I know they’re phantom pains. The ugly remains of my spirit falling into the ether between living and dead.

Thistime, red clouds my vision and the memories that surround me are blood memories. Glee hits me like a champagne cork, painful and bubbling.

An idea formed.

A deeper memory of my grandmother’s ring.

I push those away, her plan is fractured, but if I can find them, I can stop her. I pull at the memories of them with a soft touch.

She watched Thomas in his classroom, eyes hungrily devouring, lusting…

Johnny responded to a trapped racoon in the backyard of an unfamiliar house.

Chase at his bar.

Joshua doing their grocery shopping.

She’s followed them for weeks, and I never saw her once.

She wanted them this full moon.

Needed to get them away from me…

The memories start to blur and I know I don’t have much time left.

A place solidifies.

Dark.

Narrow, curtained windows set high.

Squeaking wooden stairs…

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