Daughter of Stars and Nightmares (The Eternal Bond Saga book 1)

The Fallout

Ren fidgeted outside her window, seeing him unsure about how she felt about him sent a sharp pang through her heart. Julia wiped a few stray tears from her eyes and opened her arms to Ren. "Why'd you stay away for so long you idiot? Life's been dull without you."

He squeezed her back and said with a chuckle, "I'm sorry, Jules. I thought you needed some space. Also, I wasn't sure if you had calmed down enough, not to snap me in two with your little finger. You know; now that you're even more freakishly strong."

She let out a laugh; it felt like a lifetime since she'd laughed that freely and it was good to have him back. Whacking him on the shoulder she looked at Damien and mouthed, 'thank you'. "How exactly are you planning on springing me from my jail cell?"

Ren gave her a devilish smirk. "I believe this is my best plan yet." Abby, Ella and Kuro hopped up onto the roof and came in through the window. Then Ren said to the twins, "Which one of you wants to go first?"

Ella stepped forward. "I'll do it." Giving Julia a grin, Ella's pixie length hair started to grow at a rapid pace down past her shoulders and the deep copper morphed into a golden caramel brown. Ella also shrunk down a few inches and her hips and cheeks filled out a little to match Julia's slightly rounded figure as Ella transformed in to her. "I'm getting better at copying you."

Julia stared at herself, hearing Ella's voice coming out of Julia's body was a real head-trip. The twins had only shifted into her once before and it creeped her out so much they promised never to do it again. Julia looked Ella up and down and stopped at her chest, which had grown two cup sizes. "Hey! Those are not mine."

Kuro chuckled and said, "I'm not complaining," as he wrapped his arms around Julia's doppelganger and groped her.

"Eww! Kuro, get your grubby paws off me. Thanks a lot, Ella. I can neverscrub that image from my mind," Julia moaned.

Ella laughed and wrapped her arms around Kuro giving him a sloppy wet kiss and then said, "Oh lighten up it's not that bad."

Julia's eyes bulged out of her head, she wanted to scream at them to get a room and get out of her body. Even though Kuro was gorgeous Julia had no romantic feelings for him; and watching him paw at her was disturbing.

She couldn't take it anymore and pried the pair apart. "That's enough! Gross Kuro; keep your hands off me." She gave Ella a pointed look. "Ella, get rid of the rack. Gods, this is freaky enough without you two taking it to a whole new level of twisted." Julia looked at Abby. "Please make sure he keeps his hands off me while I'm gone."

Abby laughed. "No problem."

Ren took Julia's wrist with the mark on it and Ella's right wrist and held them side by side. As he held his hand over the tattoo, it started to get hotter until it was almost painful. Wincing, Julia gasped when the tattoo lifted off her wrist and hovered in the air under Ren's hand and then came to a rest on Ella's wrist.

With a proud grin Ren said, "My best plan yet. Your mother is one smart cookie. She made it so I couldn't just wipe the bind away. She also made it so the mark has to be on someone. But there are loopholes to most spells you just have to know how to find them."

Julia and the others were awe-struck by Ren's advanced magical knowledge.

"Dude, remind me never to piss you off," Kuro said cutting the silence.

The girls laughed and Ella elbowed him in the side as she said, "You guys are always pissing each other off. He'd have to remind you twenty times a day. You two are like an old married couple."

"We should get going, Ren," Damien said.

Ren hooked his hand in Julia's and pulled her out of the window then poked his head back in. "Rosalie is on patrol all night. We should be back by midnight, okay?"

Abby waved her hand at him. "Yeah, yeah our parents are out all night. No need to rush back on our account."

Damien joined Julia and Ren on the roof and they jumped down to the ground. Ren scanned the woods before they headed to the front of the house. As they reached the five foot perimeter around the house Julia hesitated. Not that she didn't have complete faith in Ren's magical abilities she just knew how insane her mother was and thought Rosalie may have added some other magic to the perimeter to keep Julia from escaping. Taking a deep breath Julia took a step outside the barrier and when nothing happened her body relaxed as she released her breath in one puff.

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