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CHAPTER ONE

“Can you repeat that?” Warren Ca

“The witches are losing control of their prison” Cadan, his friend and colleague, looked grim “They think the barrier will break within the week”

“A week?” Warren’s stomach pitched

“Aye The only prisoner is too powerful to contain any longer A soulceress called Aurora”

Aurora The name made the blood pound so hard in his head that his eyes throbbed He hadn’t heard anyone speak of her since she’d stolen his soul o

“You all right, mate?” Cadan asked

Warren blinked andout—back to the past when he’d fucked up his entire life

“Aye” He shook his head, then surged to his feet He had to get his act together “I’ll go see theure out hoe can help”

“I’ll come too”

“Ah, doona worry about it You’ve done enough by telling me” More than that, he didn’t want Cadan to know the truth about him Closest friend or not, the fact that Warren was ahe didn’t want to share

“Aye, well, you know the witches Prideful lot Won’t seek help ’til it blows up in their faces”

Which made his job a hell of a lot harder As the head of the Praesidium, the security division of the Is like this fro

Intent on doing so, Warren strode out of his office and down the beautiful old hallway of his building on the university ca Warren’s assertions that his help wasn’t needed