AimeeLynn

When Kate, a recovering addict, meets handsome, bad-boy Aiden, her resolve to stay sober lasts only until he tempts her with the Spellbinding: an intoxicating magic. But Aiden's ex-best-friend, Chase, won't stop warning Kate that Aiden is a Shade--a dangerous sorcerer. 

When Kate naively agrees to initiate into the Shades, and is compelled to do evil to those she loves, it's Chase who saves her life, and Aiden who threatens it--but still swears his love for her.

Trapped in an ancient conflict between light and dark power, and good and evil men, will Kate give in to the dark allure of Aiden and his power despite the cost? Or will she choose the strong but gentle Chase, turning them both into targets for every dark magician in the modern world?

CONTENT WARNING: Demonic creatures, occult magic/rituals, language, sexual situations.

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They Both Love Me, But One is a Devil

Aiden pins me with that intensity in his eyes that locks me in place.

"You'll follow me into the third circle," he says quietly. "Derek and some others will be there. You'll be initiated. When he asks you what you want, you tell him what you told me. And you do whatever he says, do you understand?"

"No, Kate. You can't hesitate. You can't pause. You can't question. Once we're in there you can't talk—to anyone, not even me—unless you're asked a direct question, got it?" But Aiden doesn't wait for me to answer. He plows on, roaming my face, cutting away in the direction Derek left, then coming back to comb over me again. "I can't stress this enough. You have to be silent. And when he asks you a question, you have to be completely honest. And follow any instruction to the letter, the second it's given. Do everything you're told without hesitation."

"What, why? Aiden, what's going on?"

The Third Circle