“The Lady may favoryou, but at least I am in charge of my own destiny.”

“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.”

“If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.”

“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.”

“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.”

“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”

“Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought.“All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.”