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They were all going to die.

I was going to rip out any goodness they had left and I was going to shred their souls to pieces.

They could feel me. Every single one of them.

The second I stepped onto the school’s land, every being in the afterlife knew I was here. They knew I was angry and when I got to the football field, they knew I was there for them.

Her.

She thought I couldn’t touch her. She thought she was safely entrenched inside of my girl’s body.

I’d been distracted before, letting her go.

She was about to find out the truth.

As soon as I was close enough, I sent my power to her. She didn’t see it coming, no more than the normal itch every being on the field felt with my presence so near to them.

I let it get to her, let it start to pool around her. Building. Rising. I left a bubble of space.

I was solely focused on her so I could hear her thoughts. I tasted her emotions, how smug she was. How careless. She was wrong about everything, thinking she figured out a loophole.

She was considering staying in Cole’s body. How funny would that be? That she took the Reaper’s girlfriend’s body. She was laughing about that in her head.

She was showing off to her past sister-in-law.

It was all about that sister-in-law. Bragging to her that now she’s a human again. She’s going to enjoy a second chance at life. And she’d keep a look out for another one like Cole because there was something different about Cole’s body. She assumed it was because Cole could see ghosts. It wasn’t. It was me. Cole’s body had been created to be my mate.

I felt it the second I saw her. Felt it before that too, felt a stirring inside of me. Hope when there’d been no hope. Magic when the only magic I endured was rooted in darkness and pain, my curse. There was a shifting in the frequencies around me. Something was coming, something big.

I just hadn’t known it was a someone, until she walked into my house.

There she was.

My soul lit up, feeling hers as well. It was nestled there, waiting for me. It tried coming out of her to me, it’s why she was drawn to me. Her soul and mine, but there was a third part too. I just hadn’t known that Cassian was needed until I saw the two of them together.

I was done with this ghost.

She was in mid-laugh, her head thrown back. She had her hands up, as if she were placing a crown on her own head.

I brought up my power to close in around her, all of her.

She felt it.

She froze for a moment, feeling my power filter through Cole’s body to where this ghost was. It fit around her like a glove.

She panicked, before she began to try to fight.

“He only wants this body because of his girlfriend.”

I heard her thought. She was going to hurt Cole’s body. She began to reach for a weapon. There was nothing close enough until she saw a sod cutter left behind.

She was going to upend it, force Cole’s body to run at it as fast as possible.

“Let me go!” she screamed at me. “I’ll hurt her. I will.”

Her family members were aghast.

There were other humans still walking The Witching Line. A few of them had noticed Cole’s body interacting with no one else around her. They stopped to watch her. Some were amused. Some were concerned. Ripples of alarm and fear began to spread through the rest of those on The Witching Line, Livings and others.