32 Barrier In The Veil Jess checked on her personal barrier again; it had almost become a fanatical habit after she lost control of it. She shuddered. Losing control like that was never something she wanted to risk again. It had taken some time but once they were back in place and not leaking, she realised how unstable she had been. A slow gradual slide into becoming someone she didn’t like very much. With Damien’s help she had tracked down the boy she had nearly killed, would have killed without Isabella’s intervention, and apologised to him. At the time she hadn’t cared about her own behaviour and the very real consequences that would have resulted. The death of the man who had attacked her didn’t concern her, or it hadn’t—she’d been defending her own life. Except she hadn’t really in

