

This time when she grieved for Julian, it was a deeper grief that she was dealing with. She walked into the store and found herself fighting against Dee and Tom as they carried her away from the Shadow Men. It happened suddenly and without warning as she was walking from Patience and Paints to meet the brothers at the grocery store. It was Jenny that disappeared from the Village first. Then the Village did its worst trick ever. Later, they would seek one of the beds and spend their time exploring each other long into the night and the early morning. They’d watch movies – adventures where the good guys always won – or they’d spend the evenings playing cards or teaching other new games. Sometimes they would go to a movie, or they would get take out and hang out in one of their rooms. They spent their days working at their own jobs and then they would get together to spend evenings or weekends together. The three of them had found a way to handle that weekend and it hadn’t taken long before they were inseparable. The spell that had somehow caused them to be magically bound together for an entire weekend – they couldn’t move very far away from each other without it causing themselves pain, suffocation and dizziness. To think, it had all started with that very weird spell while they had been back in the Village. Not only that, they went into her own version of Hell to find her and bring her back where she belonged. They hadn’t given up on her any more than she had given up on finding them. The fact that they had come looking for her when she disappeared meant the world to her, too.

The boys loved her and the love she felt for them in return was a powerful thing.

The relationship she had with these two men was like nothing she had ever imagined when she was back home, but that made it even more special. Her own arms had been around Murphy while she slept and now, she moved one of them so she could find Connor’s hand. In this way, she was being held in a safe embrace by both of the men. Connor was curled against her back with his arm over her waist and Murphy was against her front with his arm over her waist and his hand holding Connor’s arm. Jenny opened her eyes and smiled as she snuggled back down in the bed.
