Chapter ONE - Weebly

She stopped at that and regarded him with obvious
surprise. “For what?”
“For not interfering with the spell, even if it didn’t
work.”
Her brow creased, as if she realized for the first time
that she had done exactly that. “I did it for the girl,” she
said. She glanced toward the body. “Will that glow go
away, or do you need to cast again?”
He could have claimed that he needed to do one
more conjuring. That way he could try the second spell
again. But he couldn’t bring himself to lie to her in this
place.
“It’ll fade on its own. She should look normal by
nightfall.”
“Good,” Bett said, and left him there.
He put away his knife and pulled his sleeve back
down. Then he picked up his waistcoat and shrugged it
on. He paused at the doorway to look at Jennifer once
more. “Grant her rest, Lord,” he whispered.
Ethan climbed the stairs back to the sanctuary.
Troutbeck was nowhere to be seen, but Pell stood by
the altar. Ethan raised a hand in farewell and continued