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Jeremy still couldn’t believe he’d managed to pull this off. In that moment when Sloane had thanked him for telling her she was a witch and then turned away, he was sure she was going to leave his life as mysteriously as she’d entered it. How he’d known to offer her the one thing she truly wanted and couldn’t get for herself, he didn’t know. Maybe fate had stepped in…or maybe his brain had finally figured out how to interact with a human being instead of a computer.
Whatever the reason, she followed him all the way back to Flagstaff — with a quick stop in Kingman for both of them to gas up — and let him give her the nickel tour of the little cottage down the street from Jake’s house that served as a refuge for orphan witches. By that point, it was nearly one in the morning, so Jeremy s
