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The superiors had left right away, doing whatever it was they did after a coven took out a demon. Oh, that was right. We were the first coven to do that. Thank goodness they’d been smart enough to reinstate us as the Order in Salem. They’d really have a mess on their hands if they didn’t.

Randy had a bandage over his chest where he’d always have a black mark from where pure evil had touched him. The doctors were stymied by what was plaguing him, but we weren’t. I ended up using magic on him anyway, at his protest, but that wasn’t all I did. I made sure he knew every day since then how much I loved him. That was the only way I knew how to get that black mark to fade. Maybe one day it would just be a memory.

Murphy and Anna had gone back to their lives in Boston. Same with the Reid’s. Liam and Dean had exchanged numbers, but to my knowledge they hadn’t called one another yet. Ren, too, had left to go do whatever he was going to do with his life. I had a hard time believing a guy I saw that much light pour from would go back to having his magical whore house, but stranger things had happened.

Randy, Travis, and Gabe sat on the couch and Liam and I piled on top of them, making sure not to jostle Randy too much. It had been like that since the big showdown. If people thought we were strange before, they were going to think it even more now. We couldn’t keep our hands off one another. It wasn’t always sexual, but I still liked that a hell of a lot. I had an inkling that’s why Jennie left so soon. She couldn’t take it here anymore, but hell, what were we supposed to do? She had invited us to Adams, though, and that was a good start in the right direction when it came to Travis’s relationship with his family.

I sighed. I was able to touch them all with at least one part of my body. My arm was thrown over Gabe while I sat on Travis’s lap. My feet touched Randy and Liam’s hand was on my back. I couldn’t think of a better way to live my life than to be with all of them for all the days to come. My heart lifted, clogging my throat. I’d been a real sap lately, which was something new for me.

Granny poofed into my vision. She smiled down at me. I wasn’t sure what had happened, but it seemed as if she could come to me whenever she wanted now. She didn’t need me to go to sleep to do it. “You’ve made something really special for yourself, Norah,” she said.

I smiled at her. “Because of you.”

Travis stiffened. “Are you talking to her again?”

I nodded, chuckling. None of them really thought it was a good thing Granny could just pop in whenever she wanted now. They looked around even when I was just staring off into space sometimes, and they especially didn’t like the idea of her popping in if we were having sex. They made me promise to tell her those times were off-limits, to which she replied exactly as I would have expected. “Do you think I want to watch you guys play hide the pickle? Tell them to get a grip. They’re not all that.”

Granny winked at me, then disappeared again, leaving her warmth in the aftermath.

This was my life now. My big, beautiful life, and I couldn’t be happier.

“Now about that hot tub at the ocean house,” I said, raising my eyebrows at Liam.

He smirked. “Oh, I didn’t tell you. They put it in yesterday.”

I sat straight up. “Are you kidding?” I stood, a smile overtaking my face. “Last one to the hot tub is a rotten egg!”

We all stood, clamoring toward the apartment door. Travis grabbed the Jeep keys off the kitchen counter and we were off to have this lovely adventure I called a perfect life.