Seventeen

CHIARA

I GRIT my teeth as I fall down on the floor with Gideon, who twists to cover me with his body. Glass breaks from the windows above us and pieces fly in places, many landing on top of the magickal shield I made to cover us.

“Whoa!” I hear him exclaim in surprise.

“Call your housekeeper, Gideon!” I remind him as I also take my phone out to text my mother that what she warned me about has started happening.

He is already calling his housekeeper who I worry might rush out to danger to find out what is going on.

There is another ‘BOOM’ and I focus on maintaining the shield to protect us from pieces of sharp glass that suddenly become flying projectiles. I think, my assignment of finding Gideon Swan just became complicated, in the light of if we don’t survive this, there is no Gideon Swan for me to deliver to the Council.

Gideon is warning someone named Amie to stay inside, lock the doors, and hide in a root cellar with her family, and that he will come to find them when this is ov