Freeze time. Just like you did with Brayden in the parking lot, I told myself.
I hurled an invisible power ball at her. Her eyes went wide for a moment, then she flew backward into the wall with a giant thud.
“Maddy!” I tore across the room as she fell to the ground beside her twin bed. Loud footsteps rushed down the hall and then the door was thrown open.
“What the hell is going on in here!?” Silas bellowed.
Maddy coughed, gasping for breath. “Had a nightmare and fell out of bed,” she wheezed.
My back was to Silas, and I wasn’t sure I could look him in the eye and lie right now without getting caught.
“I jumped out to help her when I heard her fall,” I said.
“Nightmare? Fell out of bed?” His voice was thick with sleep. “What are you, a child? Get back to sleep!” he snapped, and the door slammed shut, before his footsteps retreated.
I looked down at Maddy, wide-eyed. “Are you okay?” I mouthed.
She grinned, giving me a thumbs up. “You’ve got the shockwave power down.”
Hah. That was one way of looking at it.
Shaking my head in confusion, I helped her up and back into bed. “We’re never doing that again,” I whispered.
Maddy kept grinning like a maniac. “Tomorrow night. Same time.” Then she rolled over and pulled the covers up.
Was she crazy? I could have seriously hurt her! It wasn’t worth it. Not to mention we almost got caught. But if I could find a way to hone my powers without hurting her, I might be able to really help Brayden on fight night.
I lay awake for over an hour chewing on the idea that I could learn to control my Greywolf power. When I finally fell asleep, I was immediately sucked into a dream. This dream felt different. It felt real.
Morgana was holding a crystal tied to a string and swinging it like a pendulum over a piece of paper. “I still don’t see her. They have a concealment spell over both girls that I cannot break.”
The view widened and then I saw Brayden peering over her shoulder at a map of the United States. “Could he have taken them out of the country?”
Morgana looked tired, rolling her eyes. “I’ve scanned the entire world and the Ether Realm. You know this.”
Brayden’s face was taut with pain. “It was… her birthday yesterday. Do you think she’s… can you sense if she’s still alive?”
A hand slipped into his and squeezed, and my heart plummeted when I saw Leah rest her head on his shoulder. This dream had just become a nightmare.
Get the hell off of him!I wanted to scream.
Back in the dream, Morgana shrugged. “All I can say is that I still sense the spell to conceal the girls. It’s still there.”
Brayden growled, slipping out of Leah’s grasp, and started to pace the room. The scene in my dream grew larger and I saw now that they were in Morgana’s office back behind the shop in Coeur d’Alene. “You are the most powerful witch in existence. How can you not break this?”
Morgana sneered at him. “Because the spell was laid by a Fae Lord and fae magic is not something within my realm to easily break!”
Leah put her hands out to the both of them. “Alright, everyone just relax. Morgana, thank you for trying. We will be back next week to try again.”
Morgana looked bored at the thought of it but nodded. Leah walked over to Brayden and placed her hand on his shoulder. “Let’s go home.”
The ache in my heart at Leah asking Brayden to take her home snapped me from the dream and I woke up in a cold sweat and stared at the ceiling.
Was the dream real? It felt very real. I wondered if this was a Greywolf power. Dream visions? Was that a thing? All I knew was seeing Brayden had left me aching for his touch.
Now I just felt empty.
THREE
