Allissa
Eira flung herself over me, her magic a last-ditch wall of icy blue, but Angelica’s attack punched right through. The pressure slammed me to the bed, pinned me by the throat, and for one long, surreal second, everything went quiet. I saw Eira on the floor, twitching but alive, her hands clamped around her body as she writhed in pain.
Another wave of gold came rushing at me and I moved to protect my unborn baby. Just when I should have been hit, the world tore sideways.
A sound like a violin string being pulled and breaking ripped the air. Time exploded, a million moments shattering into a new and terrible present. There was a woman standing at the foot of the bed who hadn’t been there before. She wore nothing but blue fire and the world’s most obscene sense of confidence. Her ha
