CHAPTER THIRTEEN
I reluctantly parted ways from Will in the foyer and met the others outside the front door. They had hardly wandered more than ten feet away and I swore all of them had one eye on the house with the other on the thick forest that surrounded the building. The youthful day had vanished and the long shadows across the ground told us all that its time was waning. I paused on the threshold and looked up at the bright, happy sun that shone in a perfectly blue sky.
“A storm is coming.”
The words drew my attention to Allard who strolled up to me with a smile. “What was that?” I asked him.
He slipped up to my side and nodded at the sky. “The sky. It is too perfect. A storm will soon come and I expect it will not be pleasant.”
My face drooped. Just what we needed for ad
