Chapter 19
BELLA
My mom was beginning to get on my nerves. I’d woken up in my bed, in my bedroom, to find her sleeping on a mattress she’d conjured on the floor.
She’d sat on the toilet and chatted to me while I was in the shower, just in case I fainted. And now she was hovering over me, when all I was doing was sitting on the couch reading a book.
“Mom. Please.” I groaned. “You need to relax. I’m fine.”
“You weren’t fine last night, Bella. You came home a mess.”
I released the pent-up tension in my throat, sighing loudly. “I know. I made a mistake. But I didn’t realize that working a spell on a wolf shifter would be any different to a human, or another witch.”
“There’s lots you don’t know, Bella,” Mom said, sinking down onto the couch opposite me and staring at me the way she did s
