"Looks like the only animal left in the room is you, Phaela." I knew I was depleted and could not take on a fight with her right now.
Phaela moved in my direction. "You will pay for what you have done, Kasha. No one you love will be safe, not even in the afterlife."
Nate pulled himself up enough to crawl the rest of the way over to my feet. Kaden and Graven both stepped in to intervene. I held my hands up. Nate bowed before me and kissed my feet. "Thank you for sharing your light with me. I will forever be in your debt." He rose to his feet and stood in front of me. "That's enough, Mother."
Phaela walked in such a way it looked like she was floating across the floor. She came up to Nate and backhanded him so fast and so hard across the face that he went flying against the bar. I don't think any of us expected that the small elderly woman would be capable of such force.
She began to say something I couldn't understand. It might have be Latin or some other forgotten language and reached into her pocket and threw something at the floor in front of me. A poof of violet smoke grew around me. It blocked my vision to see if she was still there. The smoke faded as fast as it grew.
As the air cleared she was no longer standing before me. I looked around the room. Nate was lying on the floor. Maritza looked like she saw a ghost. Graven and Kaden came up to me to make sure I was ok.
"Don't even!" Graven growled at Kaden. "You don't have the right."
I grabbed Graven's arm. Everything in the room started to fade in and out of focus. My eyes rolled to the back of my head. My eyes still felt like they were open, waves of light and color danced in front of me. My heartbeat grew louder and surrounded my senses from all angles.
I tried to hold on to Graven and to the moment, but it was all fading fast. I let my consciousness drift off to my astral body in an attempt to communicate with Graven. "What's wrong with me? I don't know what's happening, I don't feel right."
He didn't respond to me.
"Graven?"
Maritza rushed over to me and grabbed my other arm. I could see the worry on everyone's face. Even in my astral body my surroundings were fading fast.
I heard Nate mumble "sleeping spell," from the ground behind me.
I watched Graven lift me off my feet and hold me against him. My shoe fell from one of my feet and everything faded to white.
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I have to say thank you to my family for all of their continued support. I also want to thank the people who have helped make this project possible. Thank you to Leigha Marie Perlewitz, Becca Vincenza, Sabina Bundgaard, and Venus Turosky for helping me bring it all together.
A special thank you to my cover designer, Laura Hidalgo from Bookfabulous Designs for not only making great covers, but for guiding me through the process of letting my covers express the artistic nature of my writing.
I must also honor and give many thanks to my Guruji, Rev. Jaganath Carrera, for keeping me spiritually grounded and helping me think about what is beyond me.
About the Author
Author Felicia Starr lives five miles from her favorite Jersey Shore destination with her amazingly supportive family. She loves to spend time creating special memories with her husband and two young boys. Everyone expected her first publication to be a cookbook, but her love for writing has surpassed her love for cooking. Felicia graduated magna cum laude from Kean University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a post baccalaureate in elementary education. She is a licensed real estate sales person, a certified yoga instructor, and most importantly, a stay-at-home mom.
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