Chapter 21
Gasping panicked breaths, I jumped right out of bed before I even realised I was awake, tripping over the denim shorts I had left on the floor. I looked at the clock. It was 4.25am and something was very, very wrong. I dressed so fast I whacked my elbow on the corner of my desk twice, and then headed down the hall to wake the others, but Bane was already up.
‘What’s the problem?’ he asked in a husky voice. ‘I just woke up needing to find you. Why are you up?’
Rubbing crusty sleep tears out of my eyes and trying to focus, I stumbled into the kitchen. ‘There are people where they shouldn’t be. Just a couple of them, but they’re up to something. I … saw them. I need to check it out.’
Just then the phone rang. Aunt Lily emerged from her bedroom looking rumpled and confused as I
