“I’m so sorry . . .” Ryan stroked her cheek with the backs of his fingers. “What happened once Georgie found you?”
“I’d regained enough of myself to ask for help, but she’d already pieced together most of what had happened and had a plan in place. She helped me get into a van and drove me to her coven. I warned her there was a tracker spell on me. But her coven leader, Barnabas, had mated a witch and she had cast a powerful ward over their mansion. The moment we drove through the gates, the spell was obliterated, along with the rest of his hold over me.
“For the first time in ten years, I was free, and he couldn’t find me. I stayed at the coven mansion for almost a decade. When I finally did leave, the coven watched out for Gabriel to protect me. They still watch over me, which is why I’
