RUBY
I waited for my mother to reply to my question and when she didn’t, I threw up my hands and charged back across the street toward home.
She wasn’t allowed to use any magic, let alone transportational magic, out in the open. Anyone could have seen her. And where the hell had she and her friends sent my men?
I stormed inside the house, not bothering to shut the front door because I knew they’d be along in a minute.
I couldn’t sit down. Couldn’t stay still. My veins buzzed with adrenaline and anger, my heart banging against my ribs and my hands shaking.
I grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and drank half of it in a few gulps.
“Ruby! What were you doing with those men?” my mother demanded as she stormed into the kitchen, her best friends hot on her heels.
“I was kissing them
