Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

He took control. He took that from you. She wouldn’t let anyone else do that, not ever again.

“You won’t ever be normal, Mackenzie, but you’ll be okay.” “Personally,” Lia commented, “I find normal overrated.”

“You with the righteously indignant, yet distinctly guilty expression on your face! Hands in the air!”

“Or,” he says, his voice low, “you could expel me, and I could refrain from telling you anything unfortunate at all.”

I leaned back against Dean, and Lia leaned against me before we all chorused in unison, “Aye.”