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the cobblestone path, and they both jumped!
    Sensing danger, Cam focused her powerful eyes on the door. She’d stun whoever it was, blind the intruder. Alex telekinetically sent a broken chair leg into her extended arm. Holding it high, she so hoped it was Tsuris and Vey, just stupid enough to return to the scene of the grime-crime. This time, the T’Witches were ready.

CHAPTER THREE
    A WALK IN THE WOODS
    “You look shocked to see me,” the visitor exclaimed, taking in Alex’s defensive posture and Cam’s electrically alert eyes.
    Disappointed but relieved, Alex put her weapon down and telegraphed Cam,
That’s the second time today someone’s said that to you
.
    “Really? Someone else surprised you first?” His half-smile, half-smirk threw Cam for a loop.
    Shane … Shane Wright? Warlock, mind reader, ultimate fly-guy. Once, they’d despised and distrusted him. He’d come to them as Thantos’s messenger, but during the course of his mission had done a lifesaving 180 and fought against their villainous uncle.
    “How’d you know we were here?” Cam stammered, hoping he couldn’t hear her heart thudding. She’d forgotten how magnetic the tanned, tawny boy was.
    He grinned and ran his fingers through his wavy hair, grown longer and a lot lighter since she’d last seen him; streaked with blond, it now brushed his shoulders. “Everyone on the island knows who you are and that you’re back.”
    We are
, Alex agreed silently.
    Not for good
, Cam thought at the exact same moment.
    Shane raised an eyebrow, amused. “Look-alikes don’t think alike.”
    The twins frowned at each other. Then Alex turned her wary gaze on Shane. “So what are you, the warlock welcome wagon?” She was no fan of his and didn’t really care if he knew it. Just because he’d refused to kill when Thantos ordered him to, didn’t mean they could trust him.
    “Busted,” he conceded good-naturedly. “On what you said,
and
what you were thinking. I did come to welcome you, and I hope you’ll both come to trust me.”
    “Sweet.” Alex let the sarcasm drip. “Only, bad timing of epic proportions. Check it out.” She motioned to the debris-strewn room. “A wreck-o-rama.”
    “Courtesy of Morons, Inc.,” Cam added dryly. “Also known as our cousins, Tsuris and Vey.
    “Fredo’s sons did this?” Shane seemed to notice the mess for the first time. He frowned and shook his head sympathetically. I can help you clean it up, if you want,” he offered.
    “No. We should do this ourselves. Ileana’s our cousin.”
    Cam couldn’t hide her disappointment. Alex was dismissing him. He’d been here all of three minutes.
    Alex softened. “Look, do your welcome thing for Cam. Let me deal with this.”
    “You sure?” Cam and Shane asked at the same time.
    Hoping they didn’t lock pinkies or do something equally cheesy, Alex dismissed them. “Go. Just be back soon.”
    With mixed emotions, Cam followed Shane outside.
    Besides being buff beyond belief, the young warlock, who she’d first met in Marble Bay, was a bridge between her two worlds. Who better to help her
bond
a little with her … uh … native place? To feel whatever Alex was obviously feeling about Coventry. All she’d felt so far was the urge to leave. Then Shane walked in.
    “I really did want to be the first to welcome you,” Shane said as they headed into the woods that surrounded Ileana’s cottage.
    Cam tried but could not wipe the smile off her face or settle the flipping thing her stomach, acting independently,had decided to do. There’d been a magnetic attraction between them from the moment they’d met months ago in Marble Bay. She’d never been able to shake the feeling. The way he was staring at her now was so not helping.
    An uninvited thought drifted by, and she tried to brush it away. Jason. Sweet, caring, and daring, the hometown boy she’d left behind would do anything for her. Had she ever felt this way around him?
    Shane did the half-smile thing at