Holy shit.
My knees buckled.
I barely managed to adjust my hold on Liv so my back took the impact when we hit the ground together, cushioning her body.
Her head was on my shoulder as I began losing consciousness, and my gaze landed on the side of her neck.
On the battery tattoo there.
On something beside it
Something that looked like a new bargain mark.
I couldn't process it before the spell knocked me out too.
twenty-three
LIV
I wokeup on the couch with the front of my body draped over Niall's chest, and a blanket draped over my back.
Someone was snoring loudly in the same room as us, but Niall didn't snore, and the sound wasn't coming from beneath me.
When did I get to the couch?
And why did I feel like I'd been hit by a car?
Every part of me ached, but my magic wasn't even a quiet buzz in my veins. I felt so calm, it was sort of eerie.
Was I dead?
I didn't feel dead.
Had my magic up and vanished, somehow?
"How did you guys meet?" a woman whispered.
I was pretty sure it was Kat, but she obviously wasn't talking to me.
"At an art gallery. Callum was supposed to go to the event, but he sent her. When I saw the tiny blonde fae queen make her fifth lap around the room, I finally got up the nerve to talk to her, and we hit it off." Niall's voice was a quiet rumble as he dragged his palm slowly over my bare back, his hand beneath the fabric of the shirt I had on.
It was still one of his. I could feel the waistband of the shorts that he thought were indecent, too, so I had those on as well. Guess that was what the blanket was for.
Dare snorted. "Byhit it off, he meansthey fucked in the bathroom."
"Sex helps her control her magic. Or it did, I guess," Niall said.
Umm... why was he talking about me like I was dead?
Was this what it felt like to be a ghost?
I guess the lack of anxiety might be worth it.
"Things will change between you," Callum said. "Livwill change. Some aspects of our personalities are controlled by the price we pay for our magic."
Now I was just confused.
And slightly concerned about the silence of my power.
