Perhaps finding death.
“I didn’t want this,” she whispered to the vampire who’d once been her only friend. In another life . . . so long ago.
Maya’s hand brushed her shoulder. “Let me help you.”
Josette shook her head. “You can’t.” No one could.
She lifted her chin when she heard the creak of the floorboard. The first. Far from the last.
Not the wolf she’d wanted to see, though, not him. Not yet.
Caleb McKenzie paused just outside of her doorway. “I-I need your help.”
She’d seen grand-mère do this so many times. “And what will you give me?”
“Anything.”
So desperate. That would make him dangerous. The world began to fog around Josette as power fueled her blood. Anything.
If he wasn’t careful, the wolf would end up trading everything.
After all, magic demanded a high price.
It was a lesson Sarah King had learned. She’d paid, she’d loved, and by a trick of fate, she’d lived.
Not everyone could be so lucky.
But then, Sarah King truly lived a charmed life.