Guest Post by Ednah Walters (author of Betrayed)

      I'm excited to be one of the stops on the Betrayed by Ednah Walters book tour which runs from June 11th-July 11th.  As part of this tour I belong to Team Fire which is hosting a huge giveaway!  Check below for more details. 

     Ednah was nice enough to write a guest post for my blog which gives a sneak peek at Chapter 1 of Betrayed. 

SCENE FROM CHAPTER 1 IN BRAN’S POV

     Sitting on my favorite spot on the roof top of Cache High School main building, I waited for the perfect moment to teleport. Amazing how often I’d appeared up here without anyone noticing. Most of the students lived in their little worlds and today was no different. They hurried toward the school entrance, some talking on their cell phones, others texting. Across the street, Lil, Sykes and Remy were having a mini-conference. 

     I could still hear my brother’s voice from the fight we had a few minutes ago.

     “You’ve stopped thinking straight since you met that girl. Where are your priorities?”

     “She is my first priority, Gavyn. Deal with it.” 

     A few months ago, I would have laughed if anyone had told me that I’d be in love. Lil made me feel things I’d never felt and want to do things I’d never done before. I gave up my old life for her and would do it again in a heartbeat. She was worth it.

     I studied her and smiled. Even after nearly six months, I couldn’t get over the fact that she loved me. Chose me. She was so breathtakingly beautiful. The combination of her crazy red hair and tanned skin—inherited from her Gypsy side of the family—made her beauty unique. But her beauty wasn’t just on the surface. She was loving, sweet, kind…

     I sat up as intense fear slammed through me. That feeling didn’t come from me. Lil was worried about something. What happened? What had missed? I had neglected her the last few days.

     I hated not being with her all the time and watching over her. Not that she needed to be guarded. Her powers were still emerging and already she could do so much more than all her team mates put together. I guess I just hated that she was still in high school while I was done and hunted demons full time. She wasn’t even allowed to hunt part-time, which meant less time spent with me. Worse, I made a stupid mistake when I promised to wait before making her mine, which meant our time together was often exciting and painful. 

     “Wow, you scared me?” a girl said when I teleported from the roof.

     “My fault. I wasn’t looking where I was going,” I lied. Using humans as shield whenever I teleported was a nasty habit I needed to break, but they made it so easy, especially the girls.

     “That’s okay,” the girl said. “Are you a new student? I think I’ve seen you before.”

     I must be losing my touch if humans could remember seeing me around Lil’s school. “No, I’m not a student, but this time, you will forget you ever saw me.”

     “I could never—” She frowned then turned and walked away. 

     Waiting by the east wall of the building, I watched Lil cross the street with Sykes. He had her backpack like he had a right to carry it for her. Then he hugged her, his arm looping around her shoulders.  

     The self-serving opportunist. When was he going to accept that Lil was mine?

     My hand fisted then relaxed. A few months ago, I would have threatened to smash his face in for touching her.  Now I knew there was nothing he could do to change how she felt about me. She loved me. Only me. Still, I hated that he could make her laugh so easily, like now. What was he telling her?

     Letting my energy reach for hers, I claimed her attention. My breath stalled and my heart picked up tempo as heat shot through my body. The feeling when our energies touched still had the power to shake me to my core. It was like a shot of pure endorphins. 

     She looked up and our gazes met. Smiling, she shrugged off Sykes’ arms and hurried toward me. It took all my control not to run across the lawn, snatched her up in my arms and fly away with her to my place. The promise I’d made to wait until she was ready was becoming harder and harder to keep every day.

     My gaze roamed her face as I extended my hand toward her. She never failed to take my breath away—the soft, kissable lips that turned up as she smiled, the slanted eyes that could be soft and inviting one minute and flashing with fire the next, the way she felt in my arms as though she was made just for me. No, she was made for me. To complete me.

     I brushed the hair from her face and briefly brushed my lips against hers, but it wasn’t enough. It was never enough with her. You okay?

     She grinned. I am now. I missed you over the weekend. Where were you?

     Her skin was warm and so soft. My eyes went to her lips again, wanting to kiss her again. I forced my mind to process what she just said and respond. Then I remembered Sykes. I must have said something to him though I couldn’t remember what. His response didn’t matter, because Lil gave me that special look, the one that told me no one else mattered but me.

     I kissed her, lost track of time and place as the rush of pulsing heat consumed me. My chest hurt and my stomach contracted, my body feeling so many sensations at once. Then a jarring ring resounded in my ears. 

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