Chapter 25

• By the time she was finished, she stood several feet away from the candles and they were half melted. A few times she’d had to look to them to control the strength of the flames, but she had been able to light one or all and in different patterns. Extinguishing the last one, she turned and looked at them. “Did I pass?”
• Wes nodded, without looking away from the candles. ‘I’m feeling twinges of jealousy right now. It took me months to be able to do that.” He grinned at her. “Then again, I was twelve.”
• Feeling flushed and out of breath, almost exhilarated, she looked at Leland. He pushed away from the wall and started walking toward her. She didn’t have to ask his thoughts, they were right there in his eyes. If his look could consume her, it would have.