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Edward’s eyes narrowed.
“I am a monster, mo bhilis. I have killed. Not only today, not only Dougal, but hundreds and for centuries.”
“Shut up, Liam,” she said, but her words held no heat. She heard the truth in his voice even before he admitted it.
“I’ve wanted to die for a long time now.”
She turned, taking his hands, staring into his face. “Even now that you have me?”
Hope lit his eyes, but it faded fast. “Believe that I love you. But ye’ll never know for sure, and neither will I, if what ye feel for me is true or a result of my magic.”
“I feel it; doesn’t that make it real?”
He shook his head.
“Come along now,” Edward ordered.
“He can’t. It’s—” Kris glanced past Liam’s shoulder, and her eyes widened.
“Liam,” she whispered. “The sun.”
CHAPTER 28
Liam spun, then stood blinking in the bright light of a sun he hadn’t seen with human
eyes in centuries.
“I thought you were moon cursed,” Edward said.
“I thought I was, too.”
Kris took Liam’s hand again. For the first time, his wasn’t noticeably cooler than hers. This time their skin temperature was the same.
She peered at their linked fingers. “What happened?”
“I dinnae know.”
Kris turned to Mandenauer. “Ever hear of anything like this?”
“Curses can be broken.” His already-wrinkled brow wrinkled even more. “Usually the one who cast the curse is needed in order to remove it.”
“What if they’re dead?”
“You raise them.”
“Raise them,” Kris repeated. “Huh?”
“Voodoo. Magic.”
“Maybe Jamaica—” Kris began.
“No,” Liam interrupted. “I forbid her to break her vow for me. And she’s hurt, weak. She couldnae.”
Mandenauer pulled out a cell phone and pressed a single button. Someone on the other end must have answered, because he began to speak without benefit of “hello.” “Have you found another way to break a curse beyond having it removed by the one who originated it?”
He listened, then shut the phone without benefit of “good-bye.” “According to my expert on curses, some can be removed by wiping out the line that did the cursing.” He turned to address Liam. “In other words, every ancestor of the witch that cursed you must die.”
Liam grimaced and said, “I wouldnae,” at the same time Kris murmured, “Uh-oh.”
