RYLAND POV

Living with the witch for a month was both heaven and hell. Hell, because every second that went by I kept hearing of all Jade's achievements just on the eve of her return, and heaven because, despite Skye being a witch, she treated me like she saw me. She treated me as an equal, and never used her divine power on me to do her bidding after that first time that she had intruded on my life.

It was just the both of us against the world, and as the days rolled by, I found myself falling into a routine that I was starting to enjoy. We woke...