Maja felt the restlessness within her subside as she admired the ring. In the quiet of the bedroom, she couldn’t resist glancing at it again and again.

Though it didn’t send her heart racing, she could at least sleep now.

She turned over and took another peek.

Then turned again for yet another look.

When Ian climbed into bed, he saw her fixated on the ring.

He had finished his nightly routine, scrubbing off the day’s smell of smoke.

With one arm, he enveloped her, preventing her from rolling around the bed any further.

“It’s getting late. Let’s get some shut-eye, okay? We’ve got that appointment with Dr. Herrington tomorrow, remember?” he said softly.

Maja instantly stilled, nestling into his embrace.

“Ian, Dr. Herrington is a really good guy.”

“Uh-huh.”

“He saved me once, and he’s always been so kind.”

“Uh-huh.”

quite the genius too. Did you

begun to doze, snapped his eyes open at this, staring

she might have said too

Herrington said he doesn’t have

“He said he doesn’t?”

“Yeah.”

small chuckle escaping

gotten the better of her. Was it because of the ring, was she

Elated?

still sense that hidden joy after

brother. So, they look exactly alike, but one has a

had said about BK having two key figures, one B and one K, who

world, but were undone by a hypnotized, naive

pulling her tightly into his

Phelps to anyone else. Her slip of the tongue was a result of the overwhelming impact of the ring. Even under hypnosis, she could still feel

in that emotion, her

hadn’t counted

handed

blunder, Maja

himself up and kissed her fiercely, leaving

it means to wear this ring, Maja?

indifference, suddenly opened her eyes wide, instinctively reaching to remove the ring.Books Chapters Are Daily

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