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a choice is it, if it’s already decided?”
    “It’s not decided. I’m only telling you what I feel you will choose, and my intuition hasn’t betrayed me yet.”
    “Do you know who will mark us?” I asked.
    “No.” Eric shook his head. “It’s been a long time since a marking has been done and it’s different for everyone.”
    I relaxed my muscles. How would I break this to Xela? Would she still want me as much as I wanted her?
    I retreated to my room, promising myself that whatever was decided, I would make every effort possible to stay with Xela. It would be my decision whether to see her, even if she hurt me, because I knew she wouldn’t. What Ma saw in her spell didn’t matter.
    The night dragged. I lay on my mattress, fiddling with the white gem between my fingers. Mira and Eric tried to be discreet, but when their moans intensified, I had to press my hands to my ears. Their leaving didn’t help. Even when they were far off in the woods, I couldn’t block out her happiness. The mental image of what lover boy and my sister were doing burned in my brain.
    I closed my eyes, and the first person to visit the back of my lids was Xela. My fingers fiddled the jewel, and squeezed it. The air blossomed with the scent of red roses. When I opened my eyes, Xela’s face was inches away from mine. I didn’t get a chance to greet her before her lips were dancing with mine, and our bodies connected soon after. She knew exactly what I wanted—her. All I wanted was her, no one else.
    Would all this change in three days? Would I have to relinquish the only woman I felt connected to in all the eternity I lived? Perhaps her black magic could give us some answers.
    “You’re worried,” she observed when we’d sated our raw passion.
    “Concerned.”
    “Why? Isn’t this what you want?” She lowered herself onto me again, urging my hips to move with hers.
    I moaned. “Yes, but I want this forever.”
    “Forever is a long time, Xander,” she reminded me. “I’m a black witch who can’t control what happens to her fate.”
    “Isn’t there a way?”
    “I don’t know.” She paused for a moment. “I’d have to do some digging.”
    “Then dig.”
    “Until I reach the other side of the world.” She licked my ear, then drew her tongue down my body, stopping midway.
    I moaned again and reached down to hold her shoulders. “Wouldn’t you want this forever?” I asked when she paused and looked up at me.
    “Yes, but I’m marked. I don’t have a choice of who I am.” She moved back up, repositioning her hips.
    I lifted my head to caress her breasts with my lips. “You’re choosing to be with me,” I said against her skin.
    “Then yes, if I could choose this forever, I would.”
    That’s all I needed to know, that she wanted me as much as I wanted her. But: “What if I got the water mark?”
    “Would your body still move the same way it does now?” She laughed.
    I grinned. “Better.”
    “Then get the mark.” She moved her hands down to control my hips.
    “You really are a black witch, aren’t you?”
    “One of a kind,” she teased.
    Sobering, I stopped the momentum and warned, “I’m serious, Xela. I may have to be one of the good guys.”
    Xela came down to rest by my side, propping herself on her elbow. “Is that where you want to be? You know it’s easy to get this.” She held out her wrist.
    When I locked my eyes on the sphere, it seemed to hypnotize me the same way Xela could. I stroked my finger over the imprint. The heat flowed like a calm stream through my veins, not a tsunami.
    “You’re proud of who you are,” I said.
    “I couldn’t choose who I could be. You can. And whichever way you decide to go, I hope you will come back to me.”
    I looked into her eyes. “I promise.”
    She smiled, but my worries didn’t fade. Ma’s words came to mind, and the knowledge that I would not be with Xela.
    “Let’s go for a walk.” She jumped up and pulled a black tank top from a