Page 8 of Magical Sass for Three
Chapter 3
Hanna was an awful person. She concluded that much. Who would have a near all-out sex session when she had to get back to the one person she cared about in that damn town?
Yep. She had problems.
Hanna didn’t waste any time on her way to Vella Cove Hospital.
At least she was able to spell herself back to her Jeep. Thank the Goddess she had a change of clothes there since her bags were still in her back seat. She was too much of a hot mess to wear what she had on.
She’d been gone long enough and knew her sister probably thought the worst.
Bad blood. That’s what Riana called her illness. Hanna hated that term, because there wasn’t a bad bone in her sister’s body. It was simply that her red blood cells weren’t functioning properly and making her severely anemic and weak. The strange part was that she wasn’t reacting to any of the treatments.
Healing others wasn’t something Hanna did with her magic, but she’d seen enough witches in the Miami Coven do it to know how it worked. No one they healed was worth the effort, in her opinion. Healing gangsters and thieves just because they paid well left a bad taste in her mouth, but she stayed due to her obligation. That was the only thing that kept her down in South Florida for so long.
Riana, on the other hand, deserved everything Hanna could do to help her. She just hoped she didn’t let her sister down in the process.
Riana’s room was at the end of the hall, and since it was evening, the hospital was quiet. Visiting hours would be ending soon, so Hanna needed to hurry.
“There you are,” Riana said, propped up in her bed. “I was starting to get worried.”
Hanna couldn’t help but smile when she saw her baby sister. Usually, Riana was the only one who could get Hanna to smile or laugh on the rare occasions she did.
Even though Riana was sitting in the hospital bed and looked exhausted, the girl still had a cheerful demeanor like she was the origin of sunshine and happiness, as if nothing bothered her. Her curly hair framed her face in a halo of goodness. They’d both been told growing up that they could be twins, even with their four year age difference, but Hanna never saw it. Riana always wore a cheerful expression on her face, while Hanna scowled most of the time. It was a look a guy or two had said made Hanna unattractive. Whatever. Most of them were jerks, to begin with.
Although their mother kicked Hanna out of the house, she always stayed in touch with Riana. She had no choice after her sister threatened to hunt her down herself unless Hanna called her every day to check in. She was grateful Riana was the one bright thing in her life, which was why she came back home. No sister of hers was staying in a hospital. Not when she could finally use her powers for something good.
“I’m fine,” Hanna said. “I told you. There’s nothing to worry about.” Hanna tried to sound as neutral as possible, but Derek and Kyro immediately filled her thoughts. They were two distractions she didn’t expect. Two hot distractions that heated up her insides.
“Did you do the spell?” Riana asked.
“Not exactly.”
“Why not?”
“Minor complications.”
“What kind of complications?”
Of the double, tall, and growly variety, she thought. “Nothing I couldn’t handle. I’ll try it again after I fix you.”
“Can’t they, you know, find you?”
“I’m a hard witch to catch, sis. Trust me.”
“I don’t doubt that one bit,” Riana said. “You sure you’re okay, though? You look a little flushed.”
Hanna brought her fingers to her cheeks. “Am I? Must be all the salt water from the ocean or something.”
Riana grinned. “Huh. If you say so.”
There was no way Riana could know what happened to Hanna in that cave, but the way her sister smiled with some kind of wisdom said otherwise. She was about to ask when someone else spoke up behind her.
“Is this the powerful sister you told me about?” a man asked.
Hanna turned to the doorway and saw a doctor who wore a white lab coat and a bright red stethoscope around his neck. He had blond hair that was styled back cleanly, but some stray strands fell on his face. His smile was charming and reminded her of the hot doctors you only saw on soap operas or evening medical dramas. She didn’t think any of those really existed. Until now.
“Powerful sister, huh?” Hanna eyed Riana closely.
