"We're leaving." I zipped past him toward the back door to the garage with no idea if he could leave. But we had to try. "Now."
"The gun," Kason shouted.
"Leave it!" Just as I reached the door, glass plinked behind me. The final poppy petal had broken. The magical feel of the house I'd sensed since I first arrived blinked out.
The front door slammed open.
The Diamond Dogs rounded the corner into the kitchen, all three of them, as if they had been waiting for the exact second the spell on the house vanished. Their straight blonde hair shone with the same brilliance as the diamond collars around their necks and the diamond aterns at their wrists. The corner of Claudia's mouth curled into an evil half smile, ripping my next scream from my throat at full volume.
"Kason!"
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