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“Have you lost your mind?” Sophia Castillo demanded, and Ava couldn’t quite keep herself from wincing at the outrage in her mother’s voice. All right, she’d known from the beginning that this interview probably wasn’t going to go all that well, but….
Next to her on the couch, Gabriel shifted but didn’t say anything. She could only imagine how hard it must have been for him to come here and face the woman he’d struck down magically last November when he came to Santa Fe to steal the grimoires. Well, imagine was exactly what Ava had had to do, since when they’d discussed how to approach her mother, he hadn’t tried to get out of this meeting, hadn’t tried to tell her that maybe it was better if he didn’t participate. He hadn’t said anything except that he understood why such a discussion
