Chapter 14
WHEN I OPENED MY EYES again, the sun was dropping out of the sky. I scrubbed my hand over my face, then the lack of my mother hit me like I was missing a limb.
I bolted upright. “Where is it?”
The locket wasn’t in my hand, and it wasn’t on the bedside table where I’d put it. Panic raced through my veins and I rolled off the bed, landing on my knees on the carpet and frantically scrabbling around the blankets for the necklace.
“s**t!” It was nowhere to be seen.
I closed my eyes and focused on the energy of the necklace. It was close by. I could still feel it. No one had taken it from me.
I dropped onto my belly and surveyed the floor. Around my bed and under.
And there it was, lying in a pile on the carpet beneath my bed.
I grabbed for the chain and held it tightly in my
