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    New Reality Paradox
    New Reality Paradox
    New Reality Paradox
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    New Reality Paradox

    By Severine Wolfe

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    Ripped away...
    Helen is removed from an unacceptable reality that her ex-husband had made for her and her daughters and set into a fantasy world full of beings from fairy tales and cautionary stories to make children behave.
    On this world, she discovers new things and new depths to herself. She’s so happy to be safe and that her daughters are safe, she doesn’t consider much beyond that.
    Vadch was taken from this world as a child, and returned to it only recently. He does his job and not much else as he has no idea what he can do. When he’s ordered to guard the Human female and her two young females he realizes he needs to be able to offer them more than a guard can provide.
    Together they will face their new reality and plan a glorious future. However, the gods of their world may have different plants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeverine Wolfe
    Release dateSep 19, 2017
    ISBN9781370504978
    New Reality Paradox
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    Severine Wolfe

    Severine Wolfe is a pen name. It's also a name I've used across the gaming world for nearly 20 years. I answer to, "Hey, Sev!" just as easily as my birth name.I am married and have four grown children and three grandchildren. I love to read and I read everything from treatises on philosophy to theories on the speed of light to the most bawdy of bodice rippers. My interests are varied but reading, knitting and gardening are my top three. Extreme knitting, not for the faint of heart.I've had stories running around my head for years and I'm just now letting them out to put themselves on the virtual page. I hope you enjoy the characters as much as I have over the years. You can contact me at sevwolfe@gmail.com.

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      New Reality Paradox - Severine Wolfe

      NEW REALITY PARADOX

      Book 7 of the Demonworld

      By Severine Wolfe

      Paranormal Romance

      New Reality Paradox

      Copyright © 2017 by Severine Wolfe

      First E-Book Published 2017

      Cover Art by Melody Simmons

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the author.

      All characters, places, and events in this book are fictitious or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, actual events, locales, or organizations are strictly coincidental.

      License Statement

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book 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 reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Ripped away…

      Helen is removed from an unacceptable reality that her ex-husband had made for her and her daughters and set into a fantasy world full of beings from fairy tales and cautionary stories to make children behave.

      On this world, she discovers new things and new depths to herself. She’s so happy to be safe and that her daughters are safe, she doesn’t consider much beyond that.

      Vadch was taken from this world as a child, and returned to it only recently. He does his job and not much else as he has no idea what he can do. When he’s ordered to guard the Human female and her two young females he realizes he needs to be able to offer them more than a guard can provide.

      Together they will face their new reality and plan a glorious future. However, the gods of their world may have different plants.

      Dedication

      I would like to dedicate this book to my youngest daughter, Jasmine, who gave me the germ of the idea for the plot of this book. You’re much stronger than you think, baby girl.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      No book is ever truly written alone. This one is no different. Mucho thanks go out to Stephanie Flores who is possibly the best Beta Reader I’ve ever seen. I honestly don’t think this book would have been published without her.

      Secondly, I would like to thank the many YouTubers out there who make videos showing writers how to improve their stories, how to self-edit, and the importance of a Series Bible. They have made this a much better book than I could have produced on my own.

      And, as usual, many, many thanks to my writer pals, SE Smith, Cynthia Sax, Carol Van Natta, and Michelle Howard who give the best advice. Love you girls! Read their books, you will never regret it.

      CHAPTER ONE

      Cassie looked down at her purse and grumbled when she popped into existence at her parent's former Home for Wayward Witches. She'd actually forgotten she had the damned phone on her, and had no idea how it had gotten back into her purse since she’d let Jacob play with it, teething on the tough, plastic cover she’d bought for it. She never used it any longer, had no need for it where she lived.

      Digging it out of her overstuffed purse she saw a familiar number, one she hadn't given a thought to since she'd left Earth for the Demonworld shortly after her twins were born. She wondered what Helen could possibly be bothering her for, when she noticed nearly 1200 calls and hundreds of unanswered texts. Feeling guilty and scared at the same time, Cassie called her back.

      OMG! Cassie! Helen nearly sobbed into the phone. I've been trying to get a hold of you for months. I'd given up.

      Where are you, Helen? Your place in Chicago? Cassie demanded, wanting to immediately go help her friend. Screw the errands she needed to run while she was back home. Cassie felt guilt for never remembering to check to make sure she had her phone on her frequent trips home. She’d forgotten that Helen had no way to get a hold of her, unlike the witches who remained on Earth.

      No! Don't go there, Cassie. They might still be there, Helen's frantically screamed and then she did sob. I need help. I'm afraid.

      Afraid of what, Helen? Cassie was genuinely confused, but more concerned. She knew her friend had gone through a bad divorce nearly a year ago, but they hadn't been in touch at all since Cassie had moved her family to the Demonworld so that her daughter, Ariadne, could develop as she needed to without siphoning off the magical essence out of her entire family.

      They're after me, Cassie. Kyle's loan sharks are after me and my girls, Helen choked. They said we'd work off his debt to them.

      Helen, I need to know where you are right now, Cassie said in her authoritative voice that made even Elves listen.

      I made it to Oklahoma, but my money is running out, Helen was sobbing again. I'm so scared and I can't protect the girls if I'm working all the time. I don't know what to do.

      I need you to think about me, Helen, Cassie coaxed and reached her air magic out to catch those thoughts. Once she had a general direction to go in, she got closer and the thoughts had increased in urgency and power. Holding her now dead phone in her hand she homed in and went directly to Helen.

      This was fun, learning new things about her teleporting power, and how closely it was linked to air magic in her world. Cassie Baxter was a born world walker. She could teleport, at will, anywhere her heart desired. No messing with passports or OPP, Other People's Portals for her. Born teleporters were rare, world walkers were even more so, there were now only two known to exist, and both called Earth home.

      Cassie heard a scream and turned to find her friend Helen wrapped around her daughters, looking at her in sheer terror. Then she saw the terror fall and confusion begin to fill her beautiful brown eyes.

      Wha — How? Helen's head swept left and right, as if the answers would magically appear or her enemies to step out of the shadows.

      Cassie almost chuckled as she thought that they just might. Her mirth died quickly as she realized that two pairs of identical brown eyes looked up at her in the same terror that their mother had just worn. She looked around the shabby no-tell motel room. What the hell had happened to her friend?

      Well... crap. Was all she could say. When she let her defenses down she noticed a trickle of magic surrounding Helen and she tilted her head, considering her friend. This was a new ability she'd picked up, the ability to see or feel the magic halo that surrounded all magical beings. As she became more aware of them, the more she could see or feel. It was weird, just like everything else in the past few years of her crazy life.

      Just as she was about to open her mouth someone began banging on the door, demanding it to be opened.

      Cassie looked back at Helen. Loan shark?

      Helen shook her head. One of his goons.

      Cassie smirked and turned towards the door.

      Cassie, no! They'll hurt you, Helen whisper screamed and ducked herself and the girls behind the bed.

      Opening the door, Cassie smirked. The guy looked like what she imagined a loan shark goon would look like. Big and dumb... and greasy. He certainly was that. She wondered if Brylcreem was still available.

      You're not Helen, the goon in question stated the obvious while the two goons behind him, apparently made in the same lot like the one in front of her, tried to look menacing.

      Nope, she smiled brightly. I'm Cassie. Can I help you?

      Where's Helen? Goon One asked.

      Helen? Cassie countered.

      This is her room, he pointed out. Where is she?

      Cassie gave him a look, then took a step, right into his face, and closed the hotel room door behind her. Helen's busy, but I bet you're about to be busier. She wrapped him and his goon squad within her portal and found herself in a dingy office with a fat weasel of a man staring at her.

      How... He started then stared at the three men behind her puking their guts up all over his office floor and furniture.

      Oh, I forgot to shield them, Cassie smiled sheepishly as she ignored the retching happening behind her. I keep forgetting to do that to people who try to intimidate me. She looked at the man behind the desk, leaned a little forward and squinted her eyes. Hmmm, I guess you do look like a loan shark to me. And your goons look like goons straight out of Hollywood casting.

      Who the fuck are you? The loan shark demanded, standing up as the three men continued to lose their lunches on the floor of his office, and in the case of one, all over one of his chairs.

      Oh, Hi! I'm Cassie Clancy, Cassie thrust her hand forward as if to shake. The man stared at her as if she was mad. When he didn't tell her his name, or take her hand she smiled even bigger. I'd really play nice if you know what's good for you, Mr. Loan Shark person. The friendly tone of her voice at total odds with her threatening words.

      Because, you threatened one of my oldest and best friends and that kind of pisses me off. If you think my popping into your office was amazing, wait until you see what I can do with fire. With that, she conjured a small fire ball in her hand and let it slide around on her palm. Pretty neat, huh?

      The guy gulped and sat down in his chair hard, nodding.

      Now, she said, taking out her phone and scrolling through Helen's messages. Apparently Kyle the Inept owed you lots of money, am I right?

      The guy's eyes widened. Are you a cop?

      Cassie gave a thought and the air was stolen from his lungs. Can cops do that, honey? She shook her head. No, I think we're agreed that they cannot do that. She continued to read the messages as she released her spell and the guy fell face down on his desk, gasping for air. Did Kyle make his arrangement for a loan with you?

      He looked up at her and nodded, unable to speak at that point. Cassie thought he looked so out of shape that the mere act of holding his breath for a minute wore him out.

      You really need to work on your cardio, she looked back down at her messages. Did you make this agreement with Helen's knowledge or agreement?

      The loan shark shook his head, still gasping for air, head down on the desk.

      So how the hell do you expect to hold her to an agreement she didn't enter into? Contracts 101, moron. She stared at him as he tried to lift his torso up off his desk, but the effort was just too much. She might be holding back some oxygen, but a girl had to use the tools at her disposal, not the ones she wished she had. Her tool of choice this day was a huge sledgehammer of oxygen deprivation. She caught his glare and gave him one of her own.

      Just so you know, I'm taking Helen under my wing, and very, very far away from you. However, I do come back home pretty often, and I'll be watching you, so I'll know if you're looking for her. The man looked at her with pure hatred burning in his eyes, so Cassie leaned close to him, putting the fireball right next to his face so he could feel a little scorch. She whispered right into his ear. If I find you've looked for either one of us, I will take this fire ball and shoot it right up your ass and laugh as I watch you burn. Do you feel me?

      She stepped back and he gave her a weak nod.

      Great! She chirped and released her hold on his ability to take in air and watched him gasping like a fish out of water.

      I'll be watching you, Mr. Loan Shark. She pointed two of her fingers on her right hand to her eyes, then one back at him. Then she popped out of his existence just as one of the goons was gathering enough strength to stand.

      CHAPTER TWO

      Cassie popped back into the motel room where she had originally found Helen, who was sitting on the bed, holding her girls close to her, looking shell shocked.

      How are you doing that? Helen asked quietly, clearly trying to make sense of it all.

      Gather up your things, Helen, we're going, Was all Cassie said, trying to make an order out of it. It often helped when people were emotionally shocked to give them orders and let them slowly come back and begin questioning the orders. Her father-in-law, Morris Clancy, had taught her that. Her own father, Jake Lester, had agreed that it had gotten him through several close scrapes and back into a thinking mode.

      Helen must still be in the throes of confusion and fear because she picked up two tote bags, after setting the girls on the bed. Cassie smiled at them.

      Hi, girls, I'm your Aunt Cassie, she said to them and held out her arms. They came to her and she hugged them tightly. It felt great. She'd found more people to love and protect. I'm going to take you guys somewhere safe where those people can never get to you.

      Where is that? Helen asked tiredly. She was exhausted by it all, the running the hiding, the abject fear that ate away at her minute by minute.

      To my new home, Cassie said, wrapping them in her electrostatic halo then porting them directly to her home on the Demonworld.

      Helen stepped back when they landed and just stared at her surroundings. Where are we? The fear was obviously eating at her again and she grasped the hands of her daughters drawing them tightly to her side. She felt—weird— was the only word that approached what she was feeling.

      We're at my home on the Demonworld, Cassie said, and a Helen saw the man Cassie had introduced as her husband a few years back, came into the room and just stared at them all.

      Are you sure about that? Helen asked.

      Cassie turned and a thousand-watt smile washed over all of them as she threw herself at the man.

      Bax! It’s Helen, my longest and bestest friend from school.

      The man leaned forward and held out his hand, but Helen refused to let go of either of her children as she

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