What else are you capable of?
I went to throw out my Defensive Sunshine, but Ollie arrived, firing his gun twice in quick succession, destroying the crystals in Tony’s hands.
They exploded in a burst of white mist. The beams began flickering, totally unstable.
That’s what I liked to see.
Tony wailed, spinning with a face full of rage.
“Freeze!” Ollie yelled, clapping out his witchcop spell.
But the spell bounced off Tony, who summoned magic to his hands in retaliation.
“You’ll pay for?—”
The beams snapped like a thousand branches, the sound hurting my ears. Shania’s essence reformed into a cloud, then shot forward, making a beeline straight for Ollie.
Oh, shit!
Before he could dodge it, the crimson cloud slammed into him, sending him onto his back and sliding across the road.
“Ollie!” I cried, leaping over the garden wall.
The witches didn’t grab for me, only watched me run to him. Panic pulsated within me, one major fear taking me over, donging like a warning bell.
Vampire.
Ollie will become a vampire.
And it was still daylight.
“No!” I screamed, smoke rising from his body. “No!”
He’ll burn.
Ollie will burn because of me.
“Isaac!” Tony roared.
I ignored him, throwing myself over Ollie to shield him from The Sun.
You are The Sun and you’ve killed him.
My heart threatened to stop, my world collapsing around me.
Ollie couldn’t die like this.
We couldn’t end at the beginning. That wasn’t fair.
But his skin began to blister, embers forming around the edges of his lovely face.
“Ollie, please…”
“Get away,” he whispered, pain woven into his voice. “Get away…”
“I can’t… I can’t…”
He wasn’t going up as quickly as Shania and her clan. This was good. I could work with this and make things right and stop him from leaving my life.
