Chapter 14
“Otto!” Tabor called out to me as I rushed down the stairs. She was there with Mom, Grams, Delphine, present from the summoning, I presumed, and three more women I didn’t know. Whoever they were, they were evil. Telltale dead, black eyes and hissing sounds emanating from them told me so.
A shattered forty-pound light fixture that had fallen from the ceiling was evidence of a fight that had already started. Tutu was going mad in his cage, and Mystic, in my pocket, seemed to be trying to gnaw his way out.
“Ah, the male Moreau and Artemis. Now, the party can truly begin.” The woman who spoke grabbed my mother into a choke hold.
“Let her go,” Artemis snarled. “Let them all go. You’re here for me.”
“Who are they?” I had a feeling I might know after all.
“My paternal grandmother
