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“And none of us are losing the woman we love,” Liam finished.
I laughed and dried my tears. Once I stood, I waved them over to me. Each of them came to me and I wrapped my arms around all of them. “I love you all too.”
EPILOGUE: TONI
I nearly bounced where I stood as I waited for Savannah to walk through the door. She was finally coming home, returning to our coven, and coming into her true power. I couldn’t be happier for her.
And there was a huge part of me that missed having her around. Things weren’t the same with her gone, and now that she was coming back, I couldn’t wait to begin with our work. We were going to try to give our sisters their powers back.
The door opened and the flash of red hair beat her through the door first. Once she was through the door and had turned to face me, I wrapped my arms around her in a tight hug.
“Hey, Toni,” she said, squeezing me to her.
“Welcome home, sister,” I breathed into her hair.
“It’s so good to be home,” she said and gave me a pat on the back.
I pulled away, grabbing her hand and pulling her with me. “Come on, we have a surprise for you.”
“Hold on just a second,” she said. “I have three others with me.”
I smirked at her. “Three men, you mean?”
I bobbed my eyebrows up and down, earning a laugh.
I shoved down the pang of loneliness that filled my heart. I wanted love for myself, and I understood patience was the key, but it was so hard to keep the faith when it seemed like all I could do was kiss a bunch of frogs.
Though I was happy for Savannah, the dynamic had changed. She wasn’t just my Savannah anymore. She was so much more. A bigger, better, improved version of herself. And I had a feeling her men were partly to blame for that.
She giggled. “Yeah.”
Once the men stepped through the door, I escorted my dearest friend, and her men, to the surprise. Even their dynamic had changed. They seemed bonded over my sister. That was a very good thing. That was how things were supposed to work.
When we entered the dining room, Savannah was greeted with a celebration being held for the return of our sisters and her. After an hour of enjoying the celebration, my intuition hit. I needed to talk to Savannah and her men, immediately.
“What is it?” she asked when I tapped her on her shoulder. The expression on my face must have betrayed the hit.
“I need you to gather your men and meet me in my room. Ten minutes,” I said.
She nodded as a small crease appeared in the center of her forehead. “I’ll go find them.”
I headed toward my room while she gathered her men and made an excuse to leave the party. I took a seat on my bed and leaned into my intuition a little more, gathering the details of the information I downloaded from the universe.
What I got wasn’t great news. In fact, it was bad.
A soft knock at my door pulled me from my thoughts. “Come in.”
The door opened. Savannah and her three men entered the room. They all took a seat where they could find one. The older one leaned against the wall, Liam. Jacob was the one with the dark hair. He sat on the edge of my desk. Savannah sat next to me on my bed, and Noah took up the opposite wall of Liam.
“You needed to speak with us?” Savannah asked.
With their attention on me, I nodded and said, “First, I want to say how grateful I am that you were not only able to find Avery in time, but you saved others on top of it.”
“We were just doing our job,” Liam said.
“But the thanks is still nice to hear,” Noah added.
I sighed. “Now for the reason why you are here. I just received a warning. I must warn you, the anonymous group isn’t done yet. They haven’t gone anywhere except into their holes to lick their wounds.”
