Chapter 121

Troy

I lifted Quinn into the warm tub, soaped up a flannel, and gently started to wash her. She was frozen down to the bone, and for the first time since it all started, she complained about being cold. “I killed the witch?” she asked for the hundredth time.

“Yes.”

“And Sebastian is okay?”

“Yes.” I checked on him before I came to bed.

My brother was exhausted, mentally, emotionally, and physically he was shattered, but he was alive. That was the only thing that mattered to me now.

“I reached out to your aunt’s witch, Gretchen,” I said. “Do you know her?”

“No.”

“Well, she’ll be here in a few days. She’ll teach you how to develop and control your powers.”

Quinn pulled her legs up and rested her chin on her knees. She looked small, vulnerable, like the little rabbit I brought home with me almost six months ago. “Now it’s over,” she said.

“I think so.”

“We can live our lives?”

God I hoped so.

I groaned and dropped the flannel in the water. I leaned over to kiss my mate. Her lips were like