“I think I need to choose more with my heart, rather than my eyes. I’m gonna close them and wave my hand over the table.”
Alex shrugged. “Hell, it can’t hurt. Not like we were having any luck before.”
I grinned and took his hand.
“Even better,” he murmured.
“On three?”
“On three.”
I counted down and extended my hand over the table, swiping from right, inward. I moved deliberately, not wanting to miss any telling sensations. At one point, I thought I felt something was off, and stopped. Dropping my hands, I fingered the piece that I recognized as the salamander necklace. Thankfully, no sense of rightness overcame me, and I released the jewelry.
Soon we’d both reached the middle, and our hands collided.
“I think closing my eyes helped,” Alex said. “It was more intuitive. Want to switch sides?”
I nodded before remembering that he couldn’t see me. “Yes. I’m keeping my eyes closed to stay in the zone.”
We shuffled around each other, and somewhere in the room, I heard a few more shouts of glee. I was almost positive that one of the exclamations had been from Hunter.
Once we were in position again, Alex and I began swiping the opposite way.
My palm had covered about half of the table when I sensed it. Heat radiated from the center of my palm out to every fingertip. I released a loud gasp and trying to remain calm, lowering my hand toward the warmth.
As soon as I cupped the full weight of the jewelry in my palm, my heartbeat kicked up, and a warm cocoon smothered me, making me feel nearly euphoric.
“Odie, open your eyes,” Alex whispered.
Savoring the sensation, my eyelids fluttered open. The necklace in my hand was stunning beyond belief. It had a moonstone as its centerpiece, and I watched, amazed as the gem changed colors right before my eyes. It went from pink to purple to gold.
“Oh my God, it’s beautiful,” I whispered. Then, realizing that Alex still hadn’t found his totem, I turned to him. “Keep going. You were drawn to this table too. I bet yours is here.”
Alex gave me a smile, as if he no longer believed what he’d said earlier.
“Close your eyes again. It’s like Professor Umbra said, you’ll know it when you feel it.”
He started where he left off, his hands trembling. I grasped the other one and sent him mantras for encouragement. He was in the middle, where our hands had collided the first time, when he stopped and sucked in a breath.
“Grab it,” I encouraged.
Alex complied, his hand dropping languidly to the table and curling around a simple gold ring, decorated with two garnets surrounding a moonstone.
The moment his hand was wrapped around the ring, my necklace began to tremble, and a beam of light shot from the pendant to the moonstone on Alex’s ring. And then, just as quickly as the connection had ignited, it vanished.
I blinked. “Did you see that?”
Alex nodded, his eyes as wide as saucers. “Yeah. But what does it mean?”
Chapter Thirty-Two
“You will not freaking believe what just happened!” Eva burst into my room, out of breath and her hair all over the place.
“Umm, you lost your hairbrush? Girl, you are a hot mess,” I teased.
Eva jumped on the bed, where I was writing a paper on magical heroes and feminism, and swatted my shoulder. “No! I ran all the way here to tell you the most exciting news of the year, and this is the thanks I get?”
I laughed. “Okay, I’m sorry!Please, most kind and amazing friend ever, tell me your exciting news.”
