Celeste frowned. “What do you mean?” she asked, facing me. “I still have a lot of, uh…” Her cheeks flushed, and she glanced at the twins for a moment, then cleared her throat. “Wedding s**t to cancel. I don’t have the kind of money that I can throw my deposits away. Besides, you said you’d help me look for my Aunt Esme.” Her voice was getting shaky. “And if there’s some crazy psychic witch running around on top of the vampires and shifters and whatever else I haven’t discovered yet, I can’t just leave Abi here alone!”
I took a deep breath. It didn’t escape my notice that Gilbert paused for just a moment at the mention of Celeste’s friend, though Piers seemed more annoyed to have been mentioned in the same list as Sabine. I didn’t need Gilbert distracted, and if something happened to Celes
