I didn’t know where we were going but I was shaking and the Chieftain seemed to notice, turning up the heat in the van. “The gemstone worked, at least,” he said, probably hoping to reassure me.
I nodded, clasping my hands together.
It wasn’t just the Stephen situation that had me shaking.
But he seemed to know that, his dark eyes moving from me back to the road.
“There are beings that naturally attract the chaos of the world,” he said slowly. “Kind of like beacons, their light attracts darkness.”
I’d read about this before. “Puritans,” I muttered.
“Right.” Then, “Did Carter tell you about this?”
“I . . . read it in his book,” I admitted.
The Chieftain gave a rough laugh. “So he found a loophole.” I gave him a funny look and found him smiling ou
