Chapter 29
A vicious wind roared through me as I rode through the void, back to Ozan’s library, back into my body. My eyes flashed open and, with a start, I realized that the roar was coming from me. Like a berserker’s yell, my voice had freed itself.
I reined in my anger, laced with power and betrayal, tucked it away safely within my chest where no one could be hurt. Not even me.
His face tight with tension, my grandfather was already rushing towards me.
“Where is it? Did you get it? What happened?”
“That man. That impossible, insufferable, arrogant jerk!” I said, ending on a scream. I sprang up and started pacing, throwing my hands wildly in the air as I exclaimed, “How could he? How could he?”
But I knew the answer.
“Protecting me,” I scoffed. “That jerk!”
“Callie, stop!” My gra
