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Then the pressure of her beneath me vanished.
Our mouths made a popping sound as she pulled away and disappeared.
I sat back and stared around the room. Fear and frustration rocked through me.
“Kellan!” Ernest yelled from the other room.
I opened the door and rushed into the room.
Josie sat on the table staring at me, that same smug look on her face. “That’s one more mark toward your hero status, Anti-hero. Looks like I just needed true love’s kiss.”
Fern jumped up and clapped her hands in applause as I felt the world titling on end. “That was not true love’s kiss.”
She rolled her eyes and slid off the table. “Well, whatever you call it, it worked.”
Chapter Twenty
Josie
I was back in my body. I had begun to think that I would never see this body again. I made a silent promise to never complain about my body again. She had been through enough in the last few days to make up for a lifetime.
I felt happy that I was back where I needed to be. How I got there was another story. I was finally tasting Kellan, his heavy body pressed against mine, and then poof. I was back in my body.
I woke with a start, all the feelings I had for Kellan and the swarm of bees in my stomach carried over.
It was a real-life fairy tale. True love’s kiss. Not that he would admit it. I could tell by the pissed look on his face that he didn’t agree.
It didn’t change the fact that I was standing in front of him with Fern jumping up and down beside me in excitement.
Ernest chuckled lightly under his breath. “Well, I didn’t have to dig up some concoction to save you. You saved yourself.”
My gaze shifted to Kellan. He hadn’t moved from the entrance, his gaze examining me from head to toe, and then back up. Unable to stop myself, I watched his broad shoulders move up and down as he breathed in heavily.
Was I doing that to him? He had his thoughts so scattered that I couldn’t make them out. “Aren’t you going to say something?” I asked after several minutes.
Those dark eyes lifted to mine. The electricity between us had my stomach in knots. Kellan was a man of few words, but I didn’t appreciate his lack of excitement for me waking up.
It was one thing to be ashamed to admit what just happened in the bedroom. I understood and respected his need for privacy, but Kellan needed to pull the sword out of his butthole.
“What is there to say?” he asked.
I lifted a brow, showing him that spirit that kissed him was the same person standing in front of him. “Maybe show some happiness? Some compassion. Something other than that stupid, broody stare?”
Kellan slid his tongue over his teeth in annoyance. “Hooray,” he said sarcastically.
The bitterness in his voice sliced through me like a knife wound. What had I done to him? Why was he so bitter after kissing me in that room? He’d wanted to kiss me. I hadn’t forced myself on him in anyway.
Fern cleared her throat. “Now we don’t have to waste time figuring out how to bring you back to your body,” she whispered. “We can work on getting you back to Earth—”
Ernest glanced over at Fern and then Kellan. “That’s your plan? Take her back to Earth and have Deidamia come back to destroy it? Her power is endless, son. We have to defeat her.”
Kellan shifted his weight. “You want to kill Deidamia? The demon that feeds off ... people? The witch with endless power? My plan was to bring Josephine back, find out who stole her stuff and give it back.”
Ernest pulled out a seat from the dining table and sat down with a groan. “Deidamia is not going to forgive you for stealing her away. You two have history, you stole Josephine from her, and now you’re running. Even if you get her stolen things back to her, she is going to kill you, no matter what, and whoever stole her belongings.”
Kellan sighed and swiped his large palm down his face. I watched his jaw work under a blanket of dirty blond fuzz. “How do you propose we do that?” he asked.
Ernest grabbed what looked like beef jerky from his pocket and took a chewy bite. “Deidamia is a demon in the form of a dragon,” he said.
