Lycan on the Edge: Broken Heart Book 13
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“Ding, dong, the witch is dead,” said Patsy. “And so are those assholes.” She glanced at Trent and Sophie. “Go home, you two. We’re done here.”
“What about Ren and Meckenzie?” asked Anise.
“Don’t worry,” Gabriel told his sister. “Ren is well.”
Patsy took Sophie and Trent’s hands and brought them together. “Well, you two crazy kids, you did good. Now, we can all get back to an Alberich-free town.”
“Is that all?” Sophie asked. “You’re sure there’s nothing more to do?”
Patsy raised a knowing brow as she looked from Sophie to Trent then back to Sophie. “Love each other, already. That’s a command from the queen.”
Trent turned to Sophie, his dark eyes even darker in the waning late afternoon sunlight. He looked exhausted and thin. Had he lost weight during the battle? She would feed him, and not from Nana’s wok. She would feed him, and comfort him, and love him.
Sophie wrapped her arms around his neck and stretched up to kiss him. “I’m okay with that suggestion.”
He pressed his forehead against hers and smiled. “Works for me,” he said.
“Me, too.”
“You know I love you, right?” He pushed back her hair from face, carefully watching her reaction.
“Yeah, I figured,” she said.
He raised a brow.
She grinned. “You know I love you back, right?”
He kissed her soundly. “I figured.”
Though dusk stretched purple fingers toward the gold and red streaked sky, night sounds had already emerged, the typical Oklahoma symphony of chirping crickets and wind-rustled grass.
Sophie loved when beauty surprised her senses, wrapping around her, singing to her soul. She paused, closed her eyes, and breathed in the moment. Being a herbalist satisfied her desire to help others, and being a wolf satisfied the restlessness that so often claimed her.
And now, in this moment, exhausted beyond measure, embraced by the man she loved, she felt completely at peace.
Epilogue
MECKENZIE LOOKED UP into the thick branches of a strange tree. Its trunk was purple, and its leaves a bright yellow. The sky was a wispy silver and the ground a vivid blue. Had she fallen into a box of crayons? Where the hell was she?
“You were very brave, honey.”
She turned and saw her mother. She couldn’t believe her eyes. “Mom?”
Her mom wrapped her arms around Meckenzie’s neck and nearly squeezed the life outta her. “I never thought I’d hug you again.” Wait. If Meckenzie was really sitting next to her mother then—oh, shit. “I’m dead?”
“Your corporeal form, yes.”
“But you’re free from the shadows and can, um … move on?”
“Ena’s dead, and with her any curse she cast. So, yes. I’m free.”
Meckenzie figured this was the part where Mom said she was going off to heaven and Meckenzie to a much warmer place, but she merely drew her daughter in for another spin-cracking hug. “You will have such a good life,” she whispered. “You will have love, and family, and oh so many wonderful adventures.”
Ren. Oh, how her heart broke. “Dead here, remember?”
She laughed, then pulled back and cupped Meckenzie’s face. “I will watch over you and yours. Always.”
Meckenzie didn’t remember her mother being so dense. She tried again. “You told me that life was for the living.”
“Indeed.” She tweaked Meckenzie’s nose. “So live well.”
Your Lycan or Mine?
Book 14 in The Broken Heart Paranormal Romance Series
When Meckenzie Braith bolted from Broken Heart, and the muscled arms of gorgeous loup de sang Ren Marchand, she promised herself that she’d give up thievery and create a life on the right side of the law.
It was a promise she kept for 8.2 seconds.
To be fair, she was using her skills for righting wrongs. She no longer accepted money for her efforts, and considered stealing for good causes as penance for previous bad life decisions.
Okay, okay. She befriended paranormal orphans who helped her with heists, but she was trying to reform them. Really.
Then Meckenzie and her gang steal from the wrong paranormal (for the right reason, of course) and end up running for their lives.
The only place she knows where she can protect herself and her charges is the paranormal community of Broken Heart, Oklahoma. The problem? She deceived the entire town, including the vampire queen.
But to save the kids who depend on her, Meckenzie will face head-on the people she betrayed—and the blood wolf she left behind.
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