Chapter 23
“Is he awake?” Michelle asked as she bustled into the room.
Jesse shook his head. “They took him back to an exam room about twenty minutes ago. I haven’t heard anything.”
“What did you do to him?”
“Used him as a focal point in some dark magic to siphon and redirect power.”
“Oh, is that all?” Michelle asked, settling in the chair beside him. “Why did he agree to that? Why did you even ask him?”
“Because Emma asked him, and we needed him. Can you stay?”
Michelle nodded. “You’re not going to?”
Any other time, Jesse would have stayed right where he was. He wasn’t the sort of guy to put another man in the hospital and abandon him there, but both John and Emma were waiting for him. And he was exhausted. Performing the ritual itself hadn’t drained him, but the onslaught of Etha
