Arella’s POV
“I don’t sense any magic coming from her,” a strange voice said somewhere far away. “Are we sure she’s human?”
Magic?!
Are we sure she’s human?
What kind of questions were those? And goodness gracious, what was that smell? It smelled like a hospital only a million times more potent. If I could, I would have scrunched my nose. But I couldn’t because, for some reason, my body was completely unresponsive.
Why couldn’t I move?
Mild panic started to sliver into my chest and I found it hard to breathe. I tried to think of a reason, but my mind came up blank. I remembered arguing with Zane that morning – which wasn’t really that out of the ordinary. I swear, sometimes that man lives to make me old. No one had ever tested my patience the way Zane did.
The stubborn, insurable,
