Third Vision of Destiny - Joan Page 4

  The knot of worry inside Daisy loosened, and a smile came up to her lips. She looked over at Woods. His eyebrows were raised, and he was watching Joan and Brad, a slight grin pulling at his lips.

  When Joan ended the kiss, she remained close to Brad, her arms around his shoulders and her fingers stroking his hair gently.

  “So that means—” Brad started, sounding hopeful.

  Joan brushed her lips across his mouth again. “We’ll have two boys,” she murmured. “They’re gorgeous.”

  Brad whooped and picked her up, twirling around. Joan laughed. When she was back on her feet, Brad started to pull her back inside, but Joan stopped him and turned back toward Woods.

  “Thank you,” she said. “Thank you so much.”

  Woods’ grin widened a little more. “You’re welcome.”

  Daisy moved aside to let Brad and Joan back in, and watched them go, their arms around each other, before stepping back onto the balcony. Woods had picked up his plate again and was nibbling from it. He looked up at Daisy as she sat in the chair Joan had just vacated.

  “I’m sorry,” Daisy said as she met his eyes.

  Woods blinked in surprise. “What for?”

  “For blaming you earlier. I know it’s not your fault. It’s just…” She let out a deep breath. “They’re my friends. I want them happy. And it looked like there are not-so-pretty things coming their way.”

  Woods washed down his food with a sip from the glass on the coffee table next to him. “We all have not-so-pretty things coming our way,” he said. His tone was kind, understanding, as were his eyes. “The trick is to remember that prettier things are coming, too.”

  “I guess so,” Daisy said, leaning back in her chair. She wondered if he had ever seen himself and what the future held for him, but before she could ask, Woods added, so softly that she had trouble making out his words, “And some people will only have pretty things, it seems.”

  Daisy looked at him and frowned. His gaze was on the plate in his hand, but the same small grin as earlier was tugging at his lips. Had he just said what she thought he had said?

  “I thought you didn’t share what you saw with other people?” she said, making the words a question.

  His grin widened just a little more; he hid it by taking a sip of his juice. “I’m sharing?” he said, sounding puzzled—and amused.

  Daisy leaned forward in her seat, her eyes widening in outrage that he was trying to take it back. “You just said—”

  “I was just speaking in general,” he said quickly, shaking his head once. He seemed to almost regret what he had said.

  “It didn’t sound like it,” Daisy pushed. How did he dare play with her like that? If he wanted to say something, he couldn’t just take it back like that “They’ll be happy?”

  She was ready to ask for a sign, a nod, any hint at all—but already he was giving it to her, meeting her eyes and smiling softly.

  “Yeah,” he said, his voice so low she could barely hear it. “They’ll be happy.”

  Deep down, Daisy had known as much. She had known, maybe, since the first time she had seen Joan and Brad together, hand in hand in the hallways of their high school. But to hear Woods say it—to hear him confirm that this was what he had seen, what Joan had seen, too—made her feel warm and happy. It was just what she had needed after what had happened with Lydia and Jack.

  “Thank you,” she said.

  Woods’ smile warmed her better than the shawl weighing on her shoulders. “You’re welcome.”

  To be continued in: Fourth Vision of Destiny – Mike

  About the Author:

  Kallysten’s most exciting accomplishment to date was to cross a few thousand miles and an ocean to pursue (and catch!) the love of her life. She has been writing for fifteen years, and always enjoyed sharing her stories and listening to the readers' reactions. After playing with science fiction, short stories and poetry, she is now trying her hand, heart and words at paranormal romance novels.

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  First Vision of Destiny – Alicia

  Daisy’s first mistake was to tell her friends that the famous seer Sam Woods is a family friend; her second one, to let them convince her to organize a soiree so that they may meet him. They are excited and can’t wait to be given a vision of their romantic future. Daisy, on the other hand, still doesn’t see the point in being told what Cupid is preparing for her. One by one, Daisy’s nine friends will get a glimpse of the crucial choice, the passionate night, or the unexpected encounter that will shape the rest of their love lives. Will Daisy join them and ask Sam to reveal her future to her before the night is over?

  Alicia is the first to volunteer to be shown what her future holds, maybe because she hasn’t had much luck with men so far in her life. Craving a relationship in which she would be needed, she has been visiting blood bars and allowing vampires to bite her. Those same vampires, Sam Woods shows her, could cause her to lose the man she loves more than anything…

  Second Vision of Destiny – Lydia

  As Daisy slowly starts to accept that the seer Sam Woods might not be a fraud after all, Lydia volunteers to get a glimpse of her future. Her boyfriend Jack is not too pleased by this, and as Lydia's vision unfolds, it appears that he was right to worry.

  Time has passed and broken Jack and Lydia apart, leaving Lydia in the arms of an artist, Owen. On a special Halloween night, he reminds her of their journey together through eight paintings before transforming her life by making her what he is - a vampire.

  Forever Starts Now

  After receiving pictures that prove her fiancé’s infidelity, Claire breaks her engagement to Jonas and throws him out of her house. As a Special Enforcer, Jonas’ job is to hunt vampires who kill humans, but while she packs his belongings, Claire discovers he might be killing innocent vampires as well. Needing to know more about vampires before she decides whether to turn Jonas in, she visits a club where vampires and humans come in close contact, On The Edge.

  There, she meets the attractive and mysterious vampire Matthew. She observes him from afar for a few nights, and when he finally comes to talk to her, it is to scare her and ensure that she will not return to a place he considers dangerous for her--a view he unexpectedly shares with Jonas.

  Claire does return, however, and discovers more about Matthew’s past than he wanted her to know. She also discovers he is attracted to her, just as much as she is to him. Their first night together is passionate, but, with the intervention of Matthew’s Sire, it ends in blood…

  Forever Starts Now shows a normal woman thrown in extraordinary circumstances where love spans generations and “forever” has a very literal meaning. She will have to find out who she is before she can get her “happily ever after” with the man of her dreams.