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"The wards aren’t up"

"Are the kids okay?"

"What’s happening? I called around and nobody’s answering"

"This is bad I can’t even get Mom to answer"

There wasn’t time to reply or to fill theathered up the kids and drew ony that shocked through htened up and over the seat, holding the children The sisters’ eyes widened, and I knew I had given away so for hu else I could worry about later At this rate,cabinet

The girls’ eyes fell on the blanket "Why are they bleeding?" Amelia asked

"My blood Not theirs," I said Amelia held out her arms I stretched over the seat and settled the children in her lap "See if you can keep Angie awake Regan, you coure out how to reie said there was a spell on them"

"I still don’t believe it" Regan said

Rather than answer, I stroked ie’s cheek, softer than any rose petal, and got out of the vehicle The sla I looked at Regan "I don’t know anything about witch ic The little bit Molly tried to explain just sounded like gobbledygook But I do knoe can’t just pull the earrings out of Molly’s ears"

Regan looked griether, an action that looked more nervous than cold "No We have to stab her first"

A totally inappropriate laugh puffed out of hty then" I indicated the dark house "After you"

Regan led the way through the fog, seehostly for as she went "It’s not so weird Only with the receiver’s permission can another witch make a spell and set a charifts work so well If you give a witch a pair of gloves or a scarf, then the spell tied to the gift is activated the h to work long ter that the practitioner has to have soenetic material to ith, like a hair with the root still on, or a fingernail clipping with soainst witches needed the snake in the heart of all animals, the double helix of DNA, the saed into another anian looked back over one shoulder, her face an knew that I also had to assu

The door in the for on lights The house looked cheery and hoic spell in the master suite There was a pile of blankets in front of the TV in the great roo up to wait through the long hours when I hadn’t bothered to call her back Because my life was so ent than hers Guilt stabbedanother hole in an into the new rooht and stood in the doorway, studying the scene Big Evan earing a T-shirt and oversized boxers, lying on his back, one hairy leg and a strip of belly exposed, snoring loudly, one arrazed her cheek Molly was curled on her side, facing Evan, most of the covers pulled to her side of the bed, her feet drawn up, hugging a pillow