“Amara, wake up,” Jack said as he shook me.
“What? What is it?” I asked as I jumped up, feeling my heart pounding rapidly.
“Emanuele called,” Jack explained and sat on the edge of the bed. “He said he tried you, but when you didn’t answer, he called me.”
I sat up and extended my arm toward the nightstand to grab my phone. It was dead. “I didn’t charge it,” I explained.
“Well, anyway, he said he had some news,” Jack said as a smile grew across his face. “They found the witch.”
“That’s good, right?” I asked. “What did they do?”
“Emanuele and Cecil are currently withholding from approaching the witch. They chose to hold off while waiting for Lucia to join them and have some magic of their own, just in case the witch proved challenging,” Jack explained.
“Okay?” I nodded and looked over
