CALLIE
I felt a strange sensation at the bottom of my stomach and my breath hitched as we walked through the portal. For a split second, there was nothing but purple light and the feeling that I was falling. My grip on Helena never faltered and I could tell she was feeling the same thing I was.
By the time we reached the other side, it felt like minutes had passed but when we came out in the hall of the East Wing in the mansion, I looked up at the clock and saw we still had a couple of minutes before Annabelle showed up.
“Let’s go,” I said to Helena. She looked almost as dizzy and nauseous as I felt. But I pushed through the uncomfortableness and kept heading forward. Helena trailed closely behind me, her footsteps sometimes sounded off as if she were tripping.
When we reached the en
