Prologue

Ruby Kane gasped for breath and held on tighter to her husband's hand.

Her piercing looked straight into his warm brown ones, the same eyes that had kept her sane for so long. As she took another shaky breath, it seemed more painful that before. A single thought consumed her mind.

I'm going to die.

But Ruby was brave. Being a magician, she had to be. She focused on happy thoughts-

Thoughts that made her life worth living.

Her children.

Carter Kane, with his father's looks and Sadie, her carbon copy, with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes.

Both so different yet so alike.

But as strong and brave as she was, Ruby Kane knew she was going to die. So she did the only normal thing in the circumstances.

She looked right into her husband's brown eyes, which were brimmed with tears, and pulled him closer. She took a deep breath, and whispered in his ear. Each word felt like a bullet to her heart.

"Julius, you have to do something for me.."

Her husband couldn't bear it- tears rolled down his cheek, only to be gently wiped away by his wife.

He softly held her hand.

"Anything for you. Anything."

She looked up sadly and whispered something.

"My last wish is…"

As soon she had told him the last wish, and Julius Kane promised to do so, her pink lips curled in to a small smile.

And then she moved no more.

Julius Kane let out a horrible wail, mourning the loss of his wife.

There was nothing to do-

except fulfill The Last Wish .