Chapter 25
“You need to leave.” I regretted the words as soon as they left my mouth. Because I should have been debriefing the child to figure out how my mother had possessed her, should have been figuring out whether there was an obvious connection between the Master and his prey.
On the other hand, I didn’t really regret my instinctive reaction. Because this poor child couldn’t stay here to be used as some sort of magic-harvesting s*x slave without her knowledge and consent.
Only now Lucinda was in my face, her long nails biting into the bare skin of my shoulder. “What have you done to my sister?” she demanded, clearly drawing kitsune-related conclusions that were more grounded in reality than I cared to admit.
“I haven’t done anything,” I countered, forcing my star ball to remain qu
