The Gift

By Kat Deacon

Prom Night Series

The Gift
by
Kat Deacon

All Seri Graham wanted for her sixteenth birthday was a date for junior prom and a car. Not much right? Seri goes from bubble gum and chick flicks to smiting demons and meeting her Gregori Watcher mother for the first time. Along with her two besties Maya and Lucy, using the gift from her mother, Seri tries to survive long enough to discover who and what she is and make it to the prom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eTreasures Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Aug 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781937809430

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The Gift

By

KAT DEACON

Published by eTreasures Publishing, LLC at Smashwords

ISBN {978-1-937809-43-0}

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Copyright 2011 KAT DEACON

All Rights Reserved.

Cover Artist: Suzannah Safi

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This book is entirely fiction and bears no resemblance to anyone alive or dead, in content or cover art. Any instances are purely coincidental. This book is based solely on the author’s vivid imagination.

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Chapter One

Her face haunts me though I have no memory of her. Yet, if I close my eyes, her image is tattooed on the inside of my lids. I dream of her. A mother that never existed—…never existed in my world at least--, leaving ashes of heartache and an infant daughter behind to wonder if she’d ever existed at all. I’m named after her. Seraphina Melena Graham, the abandoned daughter of Seraphina Melena Gregori, and only child of Samuel Graham. It’s funny how we can sum up our entire existence in one sentence.

I don’t know why I thought of her just now. Birthday cake and decorations littered the dining room table as I peeked out the window a third time, looking for my best friends Lucy and Maya to show up. Two boxes of pizza and bags of various chips crowded the dining room table.

I didn’t need all the fuss and decorations, but dad insisted. As an onlya single father, he took his role very seriously.

Bells chimed, indicating someone was at the door, and I hurried to answer it. Smoothing hands on my jeans, I peeked through the window next to the door. Maya and Lucy waved and grinned excitedly, holding up gift bags with balloons inand bright happy colors in front of them. I pulled open the door and received squeezes and hugs from each friend as they made their way inside my home.

Seri, that had better be food I’m smelling ‘cause, I’m starved! Maya groaned.

Maya wore the cutest jean Capri pants with a hot pink Tt-shirt that said Manga Rules! Her strawberry blond hair framed a heart- shaped face with freckles and green eyes a light with mischief. My dad thought Maya could do no wrong. Boy, did he not know herhe didn’t know her. My face hurt from grinning so broadly, and I gestured to Lucy and Maya where they should put the packages.

I had originally planned for us to eat raw veggies and drink water, what with prom coming and all, but I knew you might object. I tried desperately not to smile while saying this and watched the mock horror spread across Maya’s face as she placed her right palm on her chest.

You wound me, Seri. Do you think me so uncouth as to not appreciate a good vegetable plate?

I rolled my eyes. We all knew how much she loathed anything remotely vegetable-like.

Stop playing around you two! It’s quite obvious from the pizza smell coming from the dining area that you’ve got Roadrunners in there.

Lucy flounced past Maya and me to head for the dining room and the pizza. Roadrunners, the local pizza pub in