Chapter 14

Joel growled, ‘Open the door. I’ll deal with them.’ 

“No, there is no need,” Gail told him, watching the witches approach. 

‘But-’

“My aunt has protections in place,” she told him. “And hers are much better than mine. They’ll never get through them before she comes back. We’ll be okay.”

‘Okay,’ he huffed, but not an inch of him relaxed. 

“Any minute now they’re going to realize their mistake.” She held her breath as she watched them get closer… and closer. Her stomach tightened. “Odd.”

‘What? What’s wrong.’

“Oh, nothing. It’s just… I must have miscalculated where my aunt placed her spells.”