Prologue

Everyone danced around happy; a wedding was an event for laughter and happiness after all. It had been a one-sided ceremony, family heavy in one side, whilst the Bride's side was completely empty. The entirety of the Benedict clan, including the cousins, aunts and uncles had come over to celebrate Will's wedding. His Soulfinder, Finley, was more than content with all of her new family. Having grown up in a foster home in Ireland, and then living alone with a handful of acquaintances who forget her the second she moved to Colorado. Everyone had accepted Finley with open arms; why would they? She was beautiful with more than a fair share freckles and blonde ringlets, and in her wedding dress she looked like she could be a model. She looked incredibly small – at only four foot nine, but she looked lost when she was on her own being surrounded by Aunt's and Uncle's who she had no idea about – when Will came over and hugged her tight. I had never seen Will, who was always very happy to start with – as content with his life as he had been with his Soulfinder next to him.

'They're so cute, it's sickening,'

I smiled as Zed came up behind me, gently touching my waist. I was standing by a half wall in the wedding reception venue they had chosen; it was in the middle of the woodlands in Wrickenridge in an empty barn. They had done the work though in the month leading up to their wedding, and it looked stunning. Fairy lights hung from the ceiling and the beamers, the walls had been painted a lovely cream and the windows opened up to the incredibly scenery. The tables were on one side of the room, a bar on the other side with a half wall separating the open floor and the bar space. I leaned back and ended up against his chest, with his arms wrapping around me. He held a glass of champagne in his hand.

'They deserve it though,' I said.

'Finley could do a lot better than my brother,' Zed commented, smiling slightly at how adorable both of them were together. As we watched, Finley looked up at Will with the cutest smile on her face and Will picked her up and spun her around, kissing her gently before putting her back down.

'Nah, they're too cute together,' I added.

'And they'll be our neighbours soon,' Zed commented.

Very true also; Zed and I had just come back from England where we finished our degrees over there. Five long years, which involved a Masters' degree for me with a PGE on top so I was now qualified to become a music teacher and a Masters' degree for Zed which he then done a year's work with MI5, and now we were back in Colorado for good. My new job started in a six week's time in Aspen, and Zed would be working in the FBI in Colorado with Vick and Will. We were due to move in to the new place in five weeks time. Zed had found a house for us in a small town called Georgetown. A fairly new road had seven new houses on, all of a good size with a garden and three bedrooms. The FBI paid off the down payment for us, and once we announced it to the family, Will mentioned that him and Finley were moving into the exact same road, three houses down.

I was okay with this; Finley was absolutely lovely and had very quickly become one of my best friends. I was her chief's bridesmaid, and I was thrilled to have her living so close to me.

'Yeah, you look extremely good in that dress,' Zed whispered to me, kissing my neck. 'Very sexy,'

'Zed,' I muttered.

'Perhaps we should just call it a night,' He whispered, running his hand up and down the corset-styled back to my peach coloured dress.

'We can't, it started only an hour ago,'

'That's long enough, you in that dress are just too much,' Zed protested. 'Let's just go back to the house for a little while; no one will be home,' He whispered.

Weakly, I agreed. I told Finley I had a present for her at the house – and I wasn't lying. When I was helping her clear her flat before she caught the plane over to Colorado, I picked up a photo strip from a photo booth; four pictures of her and Will when they first met. I had enlarged them and framed them, adding the wedding date in rose gold writing on the frame. Zed drove me back to his house in one of the Jeep's we used to get to the area and we were barely in the door when he started making out with me.

We returned an hour or so later, and Finley knew that something had happened. Despite her being tiny and cute looking, she never missed a thing and was incredibly kickass and had the gift of the Devil himself. She could make you lose all your memories, force you body to do things you wanted to do, and so on. She was lethal. She just grinned at me, telling me my secret was safe. I had forgotten her gift too.

But that night was the start of something unexpected for so many people, including myself.