A cold chill spread through my body. Hearing the words of my sister caused fear to tear through my body. But there were expectant faces watching us from the bottom of the sweeping staircase. All awaiting the large dinner my family had arranged. As always, an over-event. I swallowed heavily and began to move, almost robotically. I did not wish to make a scene. I would have to act as if all was okay... ‘Evelyn, please…’ Lucael murmured through the mindlink. ‘You have to know your sister is playing mindgames.’ A numbness was settling upon me. I did not know what to think anymore. I truly did not. I knew Celeste could be cruel. That had been the case since we were younger. Friends up until the age of about nine, and then past that, things changed… and once my mother passed away she became e

