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This can’t be happening.

“What you did yesterday to show the...web…can you do it again?” Ash asks me.

“I don’t know. I can try.”

“Please.”

I take a deep breath and try to calm my nerves. If I do the same spell as yesterday I risk turning the twins’ skin a different color again. They might not appreciate that. I sigh and try to think of the wording for the spell.

I close my eyes and get the briefest flash of a forest before the wording just comes to me and I repeat them, muttered under my breath. I open my eyes, and a gasp leaves me.

There, burning brightly across the top of the table, is an intricate fiery map connecting the five of us together.

“Wow,” I breathe.

“Well, Jas?”

“Did it work, love?”

“Sweetheart?”

“Darlin’?”

The weight of their expectant stares is crushing me. There’s nothing for it. Shaking my head, I get to my feet and back slowly away from the table of crazy guys staring at me like I’m the freaking sun. I can’t be everyone’s! They can’t...share me.

I do the only sensible thing in this overwhelming situation: I turn heel and run.