Fifteen
“Who was that?” Dash asks immediately. His body has gone rigid, his hands poised at his sides as if ready to grab a pair of glittering guardian weapons from the air.
“Nobody you need concern yourself with,” Aurora says. She wraps her arm around his and turns him toward the garden. She leads him down the stairs and into the sun, while Roarke does the same with me, his hand pressing against my back.
“That woman is a witch,” Dash says.
A witch. I look over my shoulder again, my mind sifting through everything I’ve learned in the past few weeks and landing on the memories associated with the word ‘witch.’ Aurora said she spent her first few years with a witch, before the woman grew tired of her and dumped her here. And Jack, Violet and Ryn’s son, said witches killed his sister year
