“Now, that’s better,” Bryce said, stepping out of the trees. “I came up here to see what you were up to, and I sure am glad I showed up when I did. This is a nice little doorway you’ve got here, Michelle; I had no idea you embraced the dark side.”
Michelle knew then where the feeling of evil had come from. “I’m not like you,” she screamed, going back to chanting the spell.
“Looks to me like you are; just think what we could accomplish together,” he said. “We could be rich and famous; we could rule the world.”
Michelle shook her head. “I’m not letting you use this doorway for your evil. I’m closing it, and you can’t stop me.”
Bryce shrugged his shoulders. “Have it your way. I guess we weren’t meant to be together after all,” he said, then raised his arms in the air and began to chant a spell.
Michelle felt the evil rising from the doorway, felt it become more powerful than she was, and slowly it began dragging her toward it. She was afraid that she didn’t have much longer before she was sucked into the underworld when she saw a flash of black fur in the moonlight behind Bryce.
A rumbling growl filled the air as David sprang out of the trees, hitting Bryce and knocking him to the ground. The pull from the doorway was instantly released when Bryce was distracted, and Michelle backed up a few feet, then planted her feet and began to say her spell again.
She tried to concentrate on the doorway, but Bryce climbed to his feet, chanting a spell and pointing to David. Just then, another wolf jumped into the clearing, its teeth bared. It was the biggest wolf she’d ever seen, and instinctively knew that she was seeing a werewolf, not a shifter.
Bryce must have sensed the difference as well, because he stopped chanting and stared open-mouthed, at the black wolf. David pounced on him, using all his weight to drag him to the ground, but Bryce wasn’t going to give up easily. He rolled David onto his back, but David immediately pinned him again.
Michelle watched horrified as they fought in the dirt, moving closer and closer to the doorway until, with a triumphant look on his face, Bryce tried to shove David into the doorway. But at the last minute, David grabbed Bryce’s shirt and pulled him in, and his screams of terror could be heard through the entire forest.
David scrambled to get purchase on the side of the doorway but the pull was too great, and Michelle was sure that he was going to be sucked down. “Shift, David,” she screamed, then kept repeating the spell to close the doorway over and over as she ran to save David if she could.
Michelle could feel the doorway trying to pull her in, so she said a grounding spell, then crossed the last few feet to David and grabbed his hand. Behind her, she could hear the coven chanting the closing spell, and the doorway began to close, but David was still dangling inside, and as it closed, he began to lose his grip.
Throwing herself to the ground, she reached for David’s other hand and tried to pull him out. “You have to help; you’re too heavy,” she said as he lost his grip and plunged into the hole.
Knowing that she couldn’t live without him, she pushed herself in and grabbed his hand as they plummeted into the underworld. He pulled her to him as they fell, wrapped his arms around her and said, “I’m sorry, Michelle, I thought I could save you,” he said.
“But you did save me, David. I was lost until I found you,” she said, looking deeply into his eyes and feeling his love warm her from deep within. “I love you, David, and I’d rather spend eternity in the underworld with you than live life on Earth without you.”
“I love you too, Michelle, and I don’t care where we are, Earth or the underworld, I’ll never leave you,” he said, then lowered his head and pressed his lips to hers.
As he kissed her, Michelle began to feel a strange tingle deep inside her, but it was more than the usual desire and pleasure his kisses bought her. As the tingling increased, she began to feel lighter, and their descent began to slow, then with a whoosh, they began to travel up instead of down. David started to pull away, but Michelle instinctively knew that the kiss was drawing them up and pulled him back to her and kissed him.
When they sprang from the ground and landed in a heap, the doorway closed with a loud bang and began to smoke. Michelle laid perfectly still, trying to catch her breath. David was lying beside her doing the same thing.
He finally managed to roll up on one side and asked, “Are you okay?”
Michelle looked up at him, grabbed him and kissed him. “I’m okay, are you?” she asked when she let him go.
“I think so,” he said, then stared at her for a second. “You jumped in to save me; you would have given up your life for me.”
Michelle smiled at him and nodded. “My life would have been nothing without you in it, David. I love you, and I didn’t just save you: I saved us both, I saved our love, and all the wonderful things it will bring.”
“I think we should get married again: a big white wedding right here on the mountain. We’ll invite everyone, make it the biggest celebration this place has seen in a long time,” he said, his eyes full of love.
“Again? How many times do you want to marry me?” she asked, delighted with the idea.
“Just once more,” he said, planting a big kiss on her lips. “But just so you know, I love you so much that I’d marry you every day for the rest of my life if I had to.”
“Hmm,” Michelle said, pretending to think. “It seems to me that a wedding always comes with a wedding night; might that have something to do with it?”
David wiggled his eyebrows at her. “After the last one, can you blame me?”
Michelle giggled. “We don’t need a wedding to have a night like that,” she said. “All it takes is a flick of the wrist,” she said, lifting her arm in the air. “We can celebrate with the pack and coven later, right now we have our own celebrating to do!”
The air around them began to shimmer, and then they were gone, Michelle’s giggle floating was all that was left in the little clearing. Millie shook her head and said, “Young love.”
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