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who had passed before her. If she did, she would have twenty-four hours to spend with any spirits she conjured up.
    She glanced down at her phone again and closed her eyes. It was just too tempting not to try. Looking down at the email she sent herself, Jeni recited the spell.
    “Sea foam and castle stone, candlelight and smoke. Come to me and stay with me and give my night some hope. I call to thee my heart and soul I see thee in my dreams. Come to me this night and bring love to me on moonbeams.”
    She couldn’t bear to see them disappear. Just in case the spell didn’t work as she hoped, she wanted to remember them just as they were. Taking a deep breath, Jeni closed her eyes and said the rest of the spell aloud as well. “Forever together my heart will soar forever in night we shall be. Holding each other forever more, loving each other forever are we.”
    Jeni didn’t know why she recited the spell. She wasn’t a witch. To hear her mother talk, her grandmother had been a wise woman, but her mother refused to practice. As a matter of fact, Jeni’s mother always called it woo-woo garbage.
    “You have freed us, my lady,” the one she thought was Garrick stepped forward and bowed.
    Tears filled Jeni’s eyes when she opened them to see the two men standing before her. They were no longer made of mist, but what appeared to be flesh and blood.
    “We have dreamed of you, these many days and nights, praying to God that you would come to us.” This was from Edward, she believed. He was taller than the other man and leaner, but no less attractive. Dark hair framed his face and his coat hugged wide shoulders. The embroidered brocade vest he wore hugged his torso like a second skin revealing his broad chest that tapered down to his slim hips and well-formed thighs.
    “You’ve—” Jeni cleared her throat. “You’ve dreamed of me?”
    “Forever.” The taller of the two stepped forward. “Please forgive us. I am Edward and this is Garrick Godwine. We are…brothers.”
    Jeni heard the slight pause and figured he did that because they weren’t really brothers. If memory served, Garrick was adopted. He was the illegitimate son of their father’s second wife. Not that something like that meant anything at all these days.
    Jeni tried not to stare at them both. Edward with his tall, slim good looks and Garrick with his thicker bulk was enough to make her want to fan herself.
    “I don’t know what to say.” She brought her hand to her throat. What did it mean? Did it mean that she was the one who could give these two gorgeous ghosts rest?
    More tears slid down her face. Was she ready to lose the dreams of these two? She’d fallen more than a little in love with them throughout the years and they had done things to her in her dreams that no corporeal man ever had.
    “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” She felt her face heat. Good grief! Did they dream about the same things she did? If so, it was embarrassing!
    “Uncomfortable. That is the farthest thing from our minds. You have given us peace. The only time that we have been able to feel is when we were with you.”
    “How could you both have the same dreams?” They were confusing her. How did ghosts dream?
    The two of them grinned. “We do not literally dream. We imagine and we have been imagining you for the last one hundred and fifty years.”
    “How could you?” Jeni shook her head. “I’m only thirty years old.”
    “We knew you were coming. We prayed for you and God delivered.” Garrick moved to her side and took a deep breath. “You smell as delicious in real life as you did in our musings.”
    Jeni shivered when his breath brushed her neck. It felt just as it had in her dreams. She rubbed her arms, feeling goose bumps. She didn’t know what it was about these two men but she felt as though she’d known them forever. That she had loved them forever.
    Edward moved to her other side, his breath tickling the side of her