"Please, let me stay! I'll do anything." I fell to my knees. "Just don't take her away from me!"
The spirit gave me a sympathetic look. "I'm sorry this happened."
"Who gave her the note? Whoever did had to have broken into my house!"
She stared at the floor, almost looking like a little kid who knew she was in trouble. "I had no choice."
The blood drained from my face.
"What?"
When she looked at me, her eyes were full of sadness, but that wasn't what sent me into shock.
Her eyes were now blue.
Like mine.
"I planted the suggestion in your head," she said. "I knew you would succeed this time, and I'm sorry, but I couldn't let you."
I should've been angry, but I was too confused to know what I was feeling.
"You were never mea
