Intended Series Collection: Books 1-6 by Abigail Grant (most important books to read TXT) 📕

instantly tell that they have good money, just by the size of the home and manicured lawn. I imagine the grass would normally be so lush and green, but late fall has made it mostly brown.

I step side to side on the front porch, trying to warm myself up with the motion. I hear footsteps coming to the front door and run fingers through my hair, trying to make myself look nice. The door opens, but only Luna is there.

She has a sorry look on her face and her smile droops slightly at the corners. “I’m sorry, El. I guess mom just got called into work at the hospital. She’s a doctor, so when they call, she goes immediately. She left me a note.” She holds up a finger, and a small green sticky note is stuck to the tip of it.

I shrug my shoulders and wave a hand at her. “No worries. Neo and I can come back next time she’s home and talk to her. Then maybe he can get on her good side and he won’t be so despised.” I smile at her.

She nods. “Alright. You guys get home safe and I’ll call you.”

“Please stay home and safe,” I tell her. Feeling protective of my new little friend.

She scoffs. “Who me? I’ll be fine with my own personal Seer bodyguards on the lookout.” She grins. “I’m kidding. I will be okay though. My house has wards so no soulless creature can enter. I’ll just stay here until we can tell mom what happened. Thanks again.”

I shake my head. “Wards, huh? That’s pretty cool.” I give her a small hug and leave, crunching along the nearly frozen grass on my way off of the Wicca property. What kind of life have I gotten myself into?

Chapter 6

It has been 2 days of training with Neo, and I want to die already. I can’t believe I ever thought Alexa was tough on me. When I see her again, I’m going to give her the biggest hug and beg for her to be my trainer again.

Neo has had me doing runs morning and night, not letting me slow to a jog for even a minute. It’s either a full sprint or pushups. And I’m not kidding when I say pushups are my very worst enemy, other than the demon set to murder me of course.

Each time we finish running, he has me doing wall sits for literal hours, while I try to meditate and get myself into a vision state. I feel like I might never be in control of my visions like him. Even when I try to force a vision of anything, I pass out almost every time, like five minutes ago.

My eyelids flutter open and everything in the living room is spinning in a wild wind storm. My hair whips across my face and the books I had been reading are torn to pieces from the tornado above me. Bits of paper hit the walls and continue in the wild circle. I try to sit up, but the force of the wind holds me to the ground. Someone is speaking to me so I turn my head and see Neo army-crawling toward me on the hardwood floor.

“El! Hear my voice! You need to take a deep breath!” He shouts at me over the rush of noise surrounding us.

I try to nod at him and I take soothing breaths. The harder I try to calm myself though, the more wild the air becomes. Floral wallpaper begins stripping off the living room walls and joining the whirlwind.

“Neo!” I yell, and close my eyes. I want to cry in frustration and I want my Intended to be here. He always knew how to calm my out of control nerves when I was at a loss.

I picture him in front of me, smiling sweetly and his dimple signaling the happiness on his face. I picture the messy swirls of hair that always fell across his forehead, and I want to reach out to touch him. I try to imagine his kiss.

I can feel the warmth of his lips on mine and I try to press further into him in my imagination. I don’t want to open my eyes and not see Gavin there watching me with his dark, golden eyes and scruffy chin.

I realize that the air around me has stopped spinning, and I can actually feel warm lips moving against my needy ones. My eyes fly open to see Neo kissing me for real.

I jump back from him and smack my head on the hard floor. I roll over and grab the back of my head. “Ow! I’m so stupid!” I shout to the wood against my nose.

“You’re not stupid, El. You are powerful and amazing.” Neo sits behind me and I can’t bring myself to look at him, after letting him kiss me. I really am stupid.

I shake my head and continue staring at the dirty floor. “No, Neo. Trust me. I’m really really stupid.” I turn toward him and push myself up to a sitting position.

He tilts his head at me and I can see that he is covered in scraps of paper and pieces of debris from my windy freakout. His golden hair is tousled on his head and he reminds me of a lost puppy dog. He really is handsome, and if I had met him only months ago, I might be attracted to him and want to be with someone like him. But my heart isn’t my own anymore. It belongs to Gavin.

“What’s up, El? Why are you looking at me like that?” Neo’s eyebrows scrunch together and he is watching my eyes watch him.

I take a deep breath and shake my head again. “Neo, I really like being around you and I’m so incredibly glad we found one another…”

He cuts me off. “Wait, don’t say somethin’ about just being friends, okay. You kissed me back, ya know?”

I clench my teeth together in