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

The female demon falls on her face and slowly begins to sink into the earth as it devours her. My heart races at the sight and I have to turn away from it.

Morgan and Aunt Mags both wrap us girls in a hug. Aunt Mags touches my cheek. “Are you okay, hon? Luna said you were up against two of them in the kitchen but when we went to find you, this one broke through Morgan’s window!” Her eyes roam over me as she speaks.

I hold my hands up and do a turn for her so she can see that I’m unharmed. “I’m great. Right now, I’m just worried about Neo. Have you guys seen him?”

They all shake their heads at me and my heart sinks. “I’m going to find him,” I say.

Aunt Mags grabs my hands before I can run off. “Darling, we will all go. Remember, you have people to help you.”

I look around at the women surrounding me and I nod. “Okay, Aunt Mags can come with me. Morgan and Luna, if you two have somewhere safe to go, will you please go there and wait for us?”

“Yes dear. We will go to Cuppy’s Cakes. We have a safe room in the back, in case anything like this ever happened. Ring the doorbell to the shop and we’ll come out, okay?” She smiles at me.

I give them both another hug and grab my mom’s hand. “Let’s go,” I say to her.

We separate from the girls and run down the street toward the lake.

Chapter 11

Aunt Mags and I are stopped in the middle of a dark road and her eyes are closed as she focuses. She told me that she can sense people if she focuses on them completely. She doesn’t know Neo well, so she warned me that it could be difficult but she’d try anyway.

My legs bounce from nervousness and worry for my friend. Fate brought Neo and I together for a reason, and I don’t want to lose him. I scan the area around us. It’s half past eleven and all of the trick-or-treaters have gone home. The houses are all dark on this block and the only sound is the water from the lake that is only two blocks from us.

Aunt Mags opens her eyes and whips her head toward the lake. “That way! On the beach!” she shouts at me and we both take off in a dead sprint.

I run as fast as I can, not realizing that I have to be beating my speed record until I look around and Aunt Mags was left in my dust. I call out for her from my spot on the beach, but get no response.

I turn back to the road, ready to run and find her again when something grabs me from behind. I scream and throw my elbow into my attacker’s belly. They release me with a deep groan, so I spin around to hit them again when I freeze in my spot.

It’s him. My heart leaps in my chest at the man kneeling before me, clutching his likely broken rib. His messy brown hair falls across his forehead and his piercing golden eyes look up at my face, burning into me. My Intended.

“Gavin.” I breathe his name out and fall to my knees in front of him.

He grabs onto me again and pulls me to his body. Without even a “hello” after a month apart, he slams his lips to mine and his hands dive into my hair. I groan against him and wrap my arms around his neck. I pull him to me as much as I can, missing the feel of him more than anything on this earth.

His lips move slowly over mine with determination and power. I slide my hands across his broad shoulders and his muscled chest, wanting to feel everything that I have needed every day of the past month.

Gavin pulls away from me enough to scan my face as tears fall from my eyes. His hands cup the sides of my head and his thumbs wipe the falling tears from my cheek. “Aella.” He whispers to me with flames in his golden eyes. He looks into my eyes and his head tilts slightly to the left. “Your eyes…”

His words are cut off by a sharp cackle coming from behind him. I peer around his shoulder to see two more demons walking toward us, dragging Neo unconscious between them.

The one demon looks to be only sixteen, with evil written across his young face. His black eyes are smaller than the others and his black hair matches his soul. The other demon looks like he could be the boy's father, with light sprinkles of gray in his dark hair and a graying beard on his thick jaw.

“Well, Sam, looks like we found her,” The older one says through thin smiling lips.

The younger one, Sam it seems, is way too happy to be doing this gig. He practically bounces down the beach as he holds onto one Neo’s arms, causing my friend to bounce with him.

“Let go of him now!” I yell at them both as I stand to my feet and take a step away from my Intended, hating any separation between us after all this time.

Gavin stands by my side, hopefully still willing to fight with me after what I’ve done to him.

The older demon talks again. “Sure, we’ll let him go. We only needed him to get you down here anyways.”

The two look at one another and then together they toss Neo into the lake. I yell and immediately run after him, scared that he will drown. Gavin reaches for me but doesn’t grab me in time. I dive into the waters after Neo, but I can’t feel him around me.

The demons laugh together, still standing on the shore, and Gavin watches me with fear in his eyes. He calls out to me. “Aella, stop searching with your eyes!” he yells, but