Free Switch (The Forever Series, Book 7) by Eve Newton Page A

holding on. Trying to keep my brain busy so I
don’t think about it too much,” I say, pulling my hand from his.
    “I’m sorry. I know you probably won’t believe me after
everything I have said, but I am sorry you are hurting.”
    “Thanks. Too bad you can’t juju him to forget what I said.”
    “You know that I wouldn’t even if I could,” he says softly.
    “Yeah,” I sigh heavily.
    “I know this is probably too soon,” he says leaning closer
to me again and trailing a finger down my neck, “but now that the leash is
gone, you can be with me.”
    “Seb,” I say, scooting back a bit. “It is too soon. It is
too soon for me to even think about being with anyone.”
    He sighs. “I understand, but will you think about it now?”
    I frown at him, “Did you not hear what I said before? We
can’t be together like that. What if the starry baby turns up? Then what? CK
would kill us both.”
    “Liv, we are Vampires. We can’t procreate. The prophecy is
redundant.”
    “Not in the other world it isn’t,” I point out.
    “Fine,” he snaps. “But you haven’t been acknowledged. You
aren’t Fae. Chances of it coming true now are pretty much at zero.”
    Oh, should I tell him about my own prophecy? Although it
does seem that in the other world the future Empress belongs to Constantine.
Although in the other, other world there are loads of kids I have yet to see,
running around. Who knows what the set-up is there?
    “Liv, nothing has changed. I still need you. You are still
the one. And now that I know what it is like, I can’t go back. I’m sorry.”
    “But…”
    “But nothing,” he interrupts me and kisses me, shuffling
closer to me.
    With great difficulty I pull back. “Seb…”
    “I will get you your charge back,” he says suddenly. “I
can’t make him forget what you said but I can get him to need to come back to
you. If you will give me what I want, I will give you what you want. I can have
him back in your bed by tonight. Not as your husband, but as your charge,” he
presses that point, just in case I try to forget.
    “Wha…?” I stare at him in disbelief. “You would do that?”
    “I will do anything,” he says quietly. “Even though he will
see it as a betrayal, I will do it, for you.”
    “Seb…” I don’t know what to say. I am trying to think about
this. I want Cole back, I need him back, but this way? It isn’t like he will
really be back because he wants to be, but because Sebastian suggests to him it
is a good idea. But…he will be back. Fuck.
    He is staring at me, waiting for an answer and I am seconds
away from telling him yes, I’ll do it to get Cole back, when in pops our sire
out of nowhere. Saved in the nick of time again. He really does have an uncanny
knack for that.
    “Everything okay in here? You have been gone awhile, I was
worried,” he says as he leans down to kiss me possessively as I sit there
staring at Sebastian.
    “Yes, everything is just fine,” Sebastian says bitterly.
    “Good,” CK says, ignoring his tone. “Because you need to
come back upstairs now, my sweet. You have a visitor.”
    My eyes snap to his. “Who?” I ask.
    “Hm, perhaps you should come and see for yourself,” he says
mysteriously.
    I stand up as does Sebastian, now also curious and CK grabs
my arm to Teleport me back to my bedroom, followed closely by Sebastian. I look
around but don’t see anybody. “Well?” I say and he points to the sitting room.
    “Just brace yourself,” he says as he ushers me out with a
hand on my back.
    I am greeted by a tension you could cut with a knife and the
relieved faces of Devon, Lincoln, Xane, Jess, and Cade. And then my gaze falls
on the mystery guest.
    I take her in and don’t recognize her at first. She is about
five feet, ten inches tall, with long black hair curling gently to her
backside. She is dressed in a very beautiful dark blue velvet gown with long
sleeves pointed at the wrists, cut low over her impressive breasts,