study. Ryan looked at it sometimes with wistful eyes when she thought no one watched. I did.
I was up on the cliff. For the moment, I was alone.
She had Vane.
And I was free. The weight of my brother was lifted.
He forgave me for planning his death. I forgave him for being the source of my guilt. As much as it killed me to see him with her, I also wouldn’t have her with anyone else. The two who filled me, but completed each other more.
I would miss them.
I would see them again. Someday. When the time was right. When I could be with them without this savage jealously wrenching through me.
Vane understood.
I saw his piercing eyes fix on my spot. He knew time healed. It would be slow. Turning on my heel, I walked into the tropical jungle. Just beyond the stretch of green trees, the outline of a high-rise resort rose above the horizon.
On the other side of the gate, after we’d left Elysium, I’d glimpsed the kingdom in the mist. More than anything I’d wanted to fling myself toward it. Ryan wouldn’t have gone. Her Camelot would always be here. In a sense, she was right. This was the moment. Camelot had to be made.
Every day and with every fight.
As much as I’d wanted to, I hadn’t crossed the mist to the other world. My place was still here. With her. With my brother. Our lives finally together. I looked up at the twin suns. It would pass and the Earth would have one sun again soon. We saved the garden. The cradle of life.
I would live, too. Someday I would breathe again.
Until then there would be a lot of questions. The Queen would need me. I was not meant for obscurity. I had a lot left to do.
A world to right.
And maybe I would look for the second apple.
After all, my name has always been Merlin.
But now, I was Matt too.
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EPILOGUE
EPILOGUE
Much later, I asked Vane what was next.
A wicked gleam shone in his eyes. “A university in New Haven keeps begging me to accept a tenure. It has a penchant for secret societies that intrigues me. It’s a stone’s throw from Boston. You’d be close to home. Think of the fun, Ryan.” A hand reached around to lightly touch my back. He added low into my ear, “I know my way around a ruler.”
I let out a small moan. College with Professor Vane. Oh, Greek gods.
——THE END——
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Priya Ardis loves books of all kinds—but especially the gooey ones that make your nose leak and let your latte go cold. Her novels come from a childhood of playing too much She-Ra and watching too much Spock. She started her first book at sixteen, writing in notebooks on long train rides in India during a hot summer vacation. When not living in her character's world, she might be found at the local coffee shop—her nose buried in a book. A hopeless romantic, she is a longtime member of the Romance Writer’s of America.
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My Merlin Series:
My Boyfriend Merlin
Book One in the My Merlin Series
17 year-old Boston high-schooler Arriane, aka Ryan, DuLac just found out the guy she's been crushing on, hot biker Matt, is a little older than he was letting on. In fact, he is really Merlin—the Merlin, King Arthur's Merlin, the greatest wizard who ever lived. Frozen in a cave for over fifteen hundred years, he's woken for a purpose. But Ryan's not impressed. Tired of being a relationship loser, she'd rather kick his legendary behind.
Sure, the world has been crazy ever since the sword and the stone fell out of the sky like a meteor. But despite gruesome gargoyles, a deadly new world of magic, and the guy driving her crazy, Ryan knows that family is everything. Will Merlin sacrifice hers to save the world? Will she be able to stop him?
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My Boyfriend Merlin
My Merlin Awakening
Book Two in the My Merlin Series
Excalibur has been pulled from the stone, but what does it mean? 17 year-old Arriane (aka Ryan) DuLac has bigger problems—as student president, she's got to put on the Prom. While the Wizard Council debates their next move, she leaves the craziness behind and heads home. But she can't hide forever. Sooner than she'd like Merlin (aka Matt) has her chasing mermaids on the trail of the Fisher King. The wounded king defeated by Merlin's brother, Vane, in the past holds the key to save the future.
On the journey, Ryan begins to realize the friends she thought she knew, she may not know at all. At a time of shifting alliances, she must decide whose side she’s on—the brother who struggles to do right or the brother who dares to break the rules? And Ryan must decide who she is—a regular or a champion?
One wrong decision and her family falls apart. One wrong decision and the world falls apart. No pressure.
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My Merlin Awakening
Author's Note
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Table of Contents
MY MERLIN SERIES – BOOK 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 – ENDINGS
CHAPTER 2 – THE BARGAIN
CHAPTER 3 – THE LIBRARY
CHAPTER 4 – COLD SUMMER
CHAPTER 5 – LAST OF THE ROMANS-BATTLE OF AD DECIMUM
CHAPTER 6 – GARDEN OF EDEN
CHAPTER 7 – IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ALEXANDER, SON OF ZEUS
CHAPTER 8 – LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT
CHAPTER 9 – GODS OF WATER
CHAPTER 10 – KRONOS’S FURY
CHAPTER 11 – THE GOOD WITCH
CHAPTER 12 – ACTON-CONCORD HIGH
CHAPTER 13 – THE TEMPEST
CHAPTER 14 – PROM
CHAPTER 15 – OF KINGS AND MEN
CHAPTER 16 – I WAIT FOR YOU
CHAPTER 17 – TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
CHAPTER 18 – THE LION AND THE TIGER
CHAPTER 19 – FAITH IN WESTMINSTER
CHAPTER 20 – FOREVER AND EVER
CHAPTER 21 – BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 22 – CAMELOT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Other Books by Priya Ardis
Copyright
Table of Contents
MY MERLIN SERIES – BOOK 3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 – ENDINGS
CHAPTER 2 – THE BARGAIN
CHAPTER 3 – THE LIBRARY
CHAPTER 4 – COLD SUMMER
CHAPTER 5 – LAST OF THE ROMANS-BATTLE OF AD DECIMUM
CHAPTER 6 – GARDEN OF EDEN
CHAPTER 7 – IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ALEXANDER, SON OF ZEUS
CHAPTER 8 – LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT
CHAPTER 9 – GODS OF WATER
CHAPTER 10 – KRONOS’S FURY
CHAPTER 11 – THE GOOD WITCH
CHAPTER 12 – ACTON-CONCORD HIGH
CHAPTER 13 – THE TEMPEST
CHAPTER 14 – PROM
CHAPTER 15 – OF KINGS AND MEN
CHAPTER 16 – I WAIT FOR YOU
CHAPTER 17 – TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
CHAPTER 18 – THE LION AND THE TIGER
CHAPTER 19 – FAITH IN WESTMINSTER
CHAPTER 20 – FOREVER AND EVER
CHAPTER 21 – BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 22 – CAMELOT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Other Books by Priya Ardis
Copyright