Epilogue

Kell:

“Ready, beauty queen?” I ask Amara as I heft her heavy luggage cart towards our rental SUV. Amara, Haley, Carrick, Juliet, and I decided to take a road trip after graduation. Traeger and Jelena invited us to a cabin her parents purchased in one of the state parks located in upstate California. I could tell that Amara wanted to get away from home. Her parents are still trying to convince her to quit school and become a model. I can tell that she’s ready to snap. Unfortunately, it will be months before we start school at Cal State, so I suggested a road trip. Everyone jumped on the chance.

Carrick told me the other day that he finally revealed what he was to Haley. She freaked out at first, but Amara spoke to her, and she seems fine now. Azazel made sure that Juliet’s memory of that night with Taylor was erased. According to Azazel, all she remembers is her car stalling on prom night and her falling after stumbling around in the dark. We blamed her accident on hazy memories. She seemed to believe our explanation. Amara was concerned at first but eventually realized that no harm was done to her friend.

I’ve rarely seen Rowan since that night. He never told us how he ended up there.

And since Juliet’s memory was erased, I guess we’ll never know.

Mathias, Azazel, and the Council were able to get some information from Taylor after some extreme coercing. Unfortunately, he didn’t know as much as we thought. I guess Marael kept a lot of things from him. They searched several places that Taylor named and found a few things that might help them find her.

Apparently, they have an idea who might be Marael’s power siphon. Azazel was put in charge of taking care of that.

A hand squeezes mine, startling me out of my thoughts. “I’m ready, babe,” Amara says with a sunny grin. She looks seriously hot with her cutoff shorts, checkered shirt, and combat boots. Her shirt is open, revealing her tight blue halter top. My mouth waters at the sight of her bare breasts straining against the top. Her honey skin looks inviting.

She takes my chin and raises it to gaze into my eyes. “My eyes are up here,”

I smirk and pull her into my arms. “Oh, and what beautiful eyes they are.” She gives me a suspicious frown. “Uh, huh.” I lay a hard kiss on her mouth and move back to slap her toned ass. “The rest of you is just as good, baby. I can’t wait to see it again.”

She blushes to her roots and covers her emerald eyes with her long dark hair, then smacks me hard on the chest. “Haven’t you gotten enough?”

I shake my head with a snicker. “You know that I can’t get enough of you, babe. You’re my beauty queen. I love everything about you.”

She gives me a secret smile and bites her lip with a shy whisper. “I love you too.” Wrapping her arms around my neck, she lowers my head to her lips. I almost lose it when she bites my lobe and whispers. “Tonight.”

Unfortunately, the magic of the moment is shattered when Carrick slaps me on the back and says, “Okay, lovebirds, break it up. We have to go.”

Amara gives me one last secret smile and pulls away to walk back to the girls.

I turn to my snickering brother and give him my most intimidating look. “You’re a horrible brother, did you know that?” He chuckles. “Sure, I am.”

Everyone packs into the large car and settles in, ready for the ride. I take a seat on the driver’s side and look at Amara. “Ready for a new adventure, babe?” Taking my hand, she leans back on the passenger seat and smiles. “With you… Always.”

Oh yeah, life is good.

~The End~

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