Raven Ridge (Witches of Sanctuary Book 2)
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Lyric comes up and takes Abby’s trembling hand. “Things you do after you transformed are forgivable. I’m sure we can all agree on that.”
I glare at Erika’s unconscious form still on the ground. “However,” Lyric says, helping Abby take a step back away from Grady, “like Zeke and Julien, you had a choice about the kind of life you lived before you transformed that night in Charleston. You chose wrong, and now you’ve lost everything.”
Grady steps forward. “You don’t get to decide that.”
“It’s over, Grady.” Abby moves in front of Lyric. “I’m not your girlfriend. We’re not your friends. If it wasn’t for poor Talbot, I’d let the darkness claim you on the Winter Solstice.”
Her voice breaks, so I finish her speech for her. “You have a new choice,” I say, moving Abby to Lyric’s arm. “You help us break the curse, free yourself and your brother forever, and maybe earn our friendship back, or you can leave. Abandon your family and the people who loved you and wait in loneliness for your fate.”
Grady turns to his brother. Talbot stands next to the porch, quiet as ever, his hands in his pockets with his gaze on the ground at his feet. “I want to be a better brother to him than my big brother was to me.”
“Good,” I say. “We could use your help.”
“What about her?” Sadie points to Erika who still lies on the ground, unconscious from her battle with the evil inside of her.
“She’ll come around soon, I guess.” My teeth are tight together as I speak. Forgiveness is difficult when it’s your turn. I would have to forgive her for trying to kill Julien in an attempt to steal Reid away from me. Eventually. At some point. Not today.
“She’ll be different when she wakes up,” Julien says, looking directly at me.
“She was still evil before she transformed,” I say, and then point at Grady. “Like him.”
“I know. But take it from someone who spent their entire life fighting back against the voice in his head. Doing what Zeke and I did is difficult. We had to fight against the monster inside of us every second of every day to do the right thing. It was easier to let them have their way. I’m not saying what Grady and Erika didn’t wasn’t wrong, but if I had the freedom back then that I feel now, I know I would have made some different choices in my life. Give them a chance.”
I press my lips tight together. “Fine. We’ll wait and see what kind of crazy she is when she wakes up.”
Something wet lands on my nose. A raindrop? The thick, gray clouds above our heads linger. The freezing wind whips through the valley as I stare up at them. It isn’t rain. One single small, white snowflake floats down from the sky in front of me like the last grain of sand in an hourglass. It’s a reminder. Time is running out. The line between allies and enemies can no longer exist. The Haunted and the Innocent must come together for each other…for Sanctuary.
I point over at Erika. “Bring her inside. I’d hate for her to freeze to death before I decide whether or not I’m going to drag her back to the grand hall for that chalice by the hair of her head.”
Reid takes my hand, but doesn’t look at me. Softy.
I squeeze his hand. We’ll see.
Lyric gets Erika and takes her into Sera’s house, and we all follow him inside away from the reality that the now peppering snow wants to throw in our face. Sanctuary is absent of evil today. But only today. Darkness doesn’t just disappear. It will linger and seep into tight corners. It will survive until the light decides to take what it wants. And I will. I’ll figure out how to perform the spell of Iniquity and defeat the evil that took hold in the Haunted so many years ago. Sanctuary will be mine. I’ll bring the light back where it needs to shine the most.
The End of Book Two
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Acknowledgements
I can’t thank my husband enough. Thank you for all the little things that make this process easier for me. Thank you for helping me find a new computer, carrying boxes of books up and down stairs, and listening to me debate over every single detail. I want to thank my two beautiful daughters, Delilah and Gracie, for their love and support. Nothing means more than your toddler telling you to put her name down on the list because she wants a book too. Thank you to my parents, Neal and Josephine, and my in-laws, Ralph and Rebecca. They deliver and share books with everyone they know, including complete strangers.
A special thank you to everyone who helps make this book publishing process happen. Thanks to the best editor ever, Lori Whitwam, for sifting through my drafts and making my stories shine. Thank you Jennifer, Jessica, Dixie, Lydia, Elise, and everyone else behind the scenes that do all the hard work to get these books ready for the world.
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About the Author
Savannah was born in Hyden, Kentucky. She received her M.S in Speech Language Pathology from The University of Mississippi in 2009. She’s been writing since the early age of nine when she begged her parents for a type writer for Christmas.
She now lives in Corbin, Ky with her husband of eight years, John, and their two wonderful daughters, Delilah and Gracie.
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