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    Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)
    Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)
    Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)
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    Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)

    By Dana Michelle Burnett

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    See how the fairy tale ends...

    Forever...
    Harmony has made her choice. It’s Kieran that she loves, it’s always been him, but to choose Kieran is to lose Alec forever. Is that too much to sacrifice?
    The time has come to take her place in the Tuatha De Danann and Irish Traveller community or say goodbye to them and Kieran for all eternity.
    No matter what her decision, her life will never be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDana Michelle Burnett
    Release dateFeb 25, 2014
    ISBN9781311883339
    Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)
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    Dana Michelle Burnett

    Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was include in The Best of Foliate Oak 2006.Dana Michelle's Spiritus Series introduced the idea of a ghostly romance and became a Kindle bestselling series. She's an avid reader of anything dark and romantic. Dana Michelle lives in Southern Indiana with her dancing diva daughter and an assortment of pets.Dana Michelle loves connecting with her readers. You can find her at:

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      Ever After (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three) - Dana Michelle Burnett

      Ever After

      (Gypsy Fairy Tale Book Three)

      Dana Michelle Burnett

      Copyright © 2014 by Dana Michelle Burnett

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      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the material or artwork herein is prohibited.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real accounts. Any resemblance to a person, living or dead is completely coincidental.

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to, of course, thank my family for their endless support and encouragement and of course my readers who bring life to my stories.

      Prologue

      I was raised on stories of good and evil, and heaven and hell. I was told that hell is made of fire. It was a fiery pit that you roasted in for all eternity, but in my dreams hell was made of snow and ice as I relived that moment when I looked down at the gaping wound at Kieran’s throat and realized that even the immortal can be destroyed.

      I was trapped again in that wintery forest, surrounded by silence with only the sound of my breathing to remind me that I was still living. I felt the agony of waiting for the Mileans to come and kill all of us in their desire to rid the world of the magical Tuatha De Danann. I could hear them walking through the trees, their feet crunching in the new fallen snow.

      They were coming. They were always coming. I heard them coming closer and closer to where we hid. It would only be a moment or two more before they would come crashing through the branches and they would have us. I knew they would kill me, but not before they finished beheading Kieran and the rest of his family.

      Would the Mileans make me watch as they burned their bodies? How could I bear it? Would that be the last thing I saw before they killed me too?

      In my dream I turned, and suddenly I was all alone. Kieran and his family were gone, vanished as if they never existed at all. I was alone in the icy forest.

      Hell...I knew what it really was...It was snow...It was winter...And it was the loneliness.

      Chapter 1

      I shook my head as the memory of my dream came back to me. The rain outside on the melting snow cast a grey light over the inside of the feed store, making it too easy to get lost in my own dangerous thoughts.

      I brushed my hands over my face and rubbed my eyes, so dry from the hot air of the furnace. All around me the musty, earthy smell of wood and grain tried to lull me back into dozing. I loved that smell, the scent of my childhood and oddly comforting.

      Glancing down at my watch, I saw it was near eight in the morning. I’d been sitting for an hour, lost in my morbid thoughts.

      What was I doing? Kieran was fine. His family was fine. Alec and I reached them in time and warned them of the impending attack by the Mileans. Everything was fine.

      I shivered as a brief vision of Kieran nearly beheaded flashed behind my eyes. I didn’t want to think about that. He survived, healed by one of the oldest Tuatha De Danann members in existence, that was all that mattered. He survived and he was coming back to America as soon as possible and then we would begin our life together.

      I forced myself up from the stool and counter, pushing my reluctant body into motion, I went over to the door and flipping the sign to OPEN. I forced myself to move again to switch on the lights, making the store burst into a bright, artificial light, somehow even colder than the gloomy grey of the day outside. I mechanically made the coffee, watching it brew and pouring myself a cup as soon as it was finished.

      Taking my cup of coffee back to the counter, I opened the register and began counting out the money for the deposit. I heard the door to the back storeroom open and close with a bang as Alec arrived. I felt myself blush as I remembered his kiss on our plane ride home. Why did I let him do that?

      I looked down, pretending to focus on the money I had in my hand, as he stepped up beside me. I kept looking down, thumbing the bills even though I kept losing count. He said nothing. He just stood there looking down at me until he finally stepped away and began sweeping the floor.

      Every time he got near me as he moved across the room, I turned slightly away, looking at the money, the register, anything to keep from having to look at him. I was humiliated that I let him kiss me and wished I could somehow just take it back or erase it from both of our memories.

      Why did I have to let things go and get so awkward? Everything was fine before that kiss and now it was just...weird.

      Suddenly, Alec was standing directly in front of me, casting a shadow over me. Still, I didn’t look up. I kept looking down even though I could feel his eyes boring down on the top of my head.

      Are we going to talk about this? he asked in that same voice I had heard most of my life growing up together, but it sounded so different now.

      Talk about what?

      About us.

      I couldn’t help it, I looked up. There he was, Alec, my best friend, asking me questions I didn’t want to answer.

      There is no us, I said. There is you and there is me, but there is no us.

      Alec winced before he had the chance to catch himself and then stood a little straighter, Then what about that kiss?

      Can’t we just forget about that? I sighed, feeling sick.

      No, Alec said quickly, leaning down so that I was forced to look him in the eye. Can you forget about it? Can you really say that there is nothing there?

      I couldn’t stand the pleading look I saw on his face. I looked down at my hands twisting in my lap.

      There is nothing there, I said softly.

      You’re a liar.

      Even if it is a lie, I said, risking a glance up at him. Do you think that I could just stop loving Kieran? Do you think that I could just shut it off or something?

      Before Alec could say anything else, the bell over the door sounded as a customer walked in. He gave me

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