Just then, she felt a surge of power unlike anything she had ever experienced before. confusion swirling in her mind. What was that? she wondered. Where did that come from?
She rose abruptly from her bed, unsettled. The power was so overwhelming, so commanding, that it stirred something deep within her—an urge to submit, to obey, as though the very force demanded her allegiance without question.
But what shocked her most was how familiar the power felt—so familiar that she could almost trace it.
Was that Dean’s aura? she wondered. Whatever it is, it can’t be good. And deep down, she had a feeling she knew why he might have released such energy—It’s probably because of Taya, she thought, remembering the older woman was supposed to meet with him after dinner.
With a weary sigh, she sat b
