“Just a little?” He shouted. “Might I remind you it is ILLEGAL—"
“I know, I know. I’ve never tried this one before but then Saffie was taken and I just panicked okay?” I groaned. “I’m really sorry.”
Another woman stepped forward, she had sandy blonde hair and soft blue eyes. “Can you tell us about this spell?”
I nodded…then launched into the whole story. I literally told them everything – aside from my embarrassing myself with Cooper.
When I finished there was silence.
Cooper held his hand out in front of me. My pulse skipped as I placed my hand in his soft grip. He pulled me back onto my own feet…but then let go and I wanted to cry.
Tennessee cursed. “Savannah, it doesn’t work like that. The world isn’t black and white, you can’t just play with things you don’t understand. This is why black magic is illegal because people can get hurt or killed. You don’t know everything about the world we live in and you’re not supposed to because you get to be a civilian. You get to live your happy free life and we do all the messy shit. Saffie is no longer in our realm, no black magic spell you do is going to bring her back.”
Tegan tapped her finger on her chin and pursed her lips. “Not for her…but it might work for me.”
“WHAT?”
“Dear Goddess, does she ever stop.”
“This anxiety is too much.”
“No, girl.”
“Tenn, make her stop.”
“What does that mean?”
The Coven was losing it on her. Well, everyone except for Tennessee’s look-alike, Lennox, Henley, and the little kid who looked a lot like her.
“Y’all, it makes SENSE.” Tegan sighed and held her hand up, gold jewelry sparkling in the moonlight. “She has Keltie’s jewels on. You already know I’ve been tracking her, hence why we’re in Salem right now—”
“She’s in Salem right now?” My heart skipped beats.
Tegan opened her mouth then shut it. She grimaced. “Technically, she was. But not in our timeline.”
My stomach dropped. For some reason my gaze shot to Cooper. “Our timeline?”
He shrugged his shoulder. “The Seelie tunnels allow for time travel. So she was here in Salem but back in the past.”
My jaw dropped.
Tennessee pointed to Cooper. “Do you see now? That spell you just did could’ve tore both of your souls from your bodies because you don’t know what you’re doing.”
A cold chill slid down my spine. I screwed up. BAD. My pulse pounded.
“But I do.” Tegan wagged her eyebrows. “This gives me an advantage that Savannah didn’t have.”
“Bro. Just hold up a second.” The tall raven-haired girl who looked like Tennessee walked forward. “You’re scaring everyone and for good reason. Can you just like not be entirely you for a second? What are you thinking? Say it out loud and in full sentences.”
“I can do the spell she tried—”
Everyone shouted.
She threw her hand up and everyone’s jaws snapped shut like she’d done it herself. I suspected she had. “Allow me to clarify…Savannah’s black magic spell as she did it would never work. However, my own version of it will. Or should. I’m ninety-eight percent sure.”
“I don’t like the odds for that two percent,” the silver fox in the buffalo plaid grumbled.
“I know black magic, y’all. I am not saying this lightly.”
I frowned. Somehow the idea the High Priestess knew and used black magic was unsettling. “Where’d you learn black magic from?”
“A demon.”
“Babe,” Tennessee growled and the snow covering my balcony melted.
“Lennox, Henley, Bettina…remember that spell I was showing you this morning?” Tegan waited for them to nod then she smirked. “If we take that one and remix it with Savannah’s black magic spell I think it’ll work.”
Lennox opened her mouth then shut it. “Maybe. You’d have to really remix it, more like a loose interpretation.”
The Tennessee clone girl sighed. “And I don’t know if it’ll work if she’s in the Seelie tunnel.”
“It would only work if she’s in the Seelie tunnel.” Henley fidgeted with her silver choker. “If she’s not in our time it could kill her and the person tied to her.”
“I wouldn’t do a blood tie like that, no binding.”
Henley exhaled and shook her head. “Well okay, but still, we’d have to first get her into the Seelie tunnel because we can’t time travel.”
“Which is why we have to do it from the Seelie tunnel.” Tegan rubbed her palms together, her eyes bright with excitement. “It’ll be a two step process. Someone goes into the tunnel and uses their own magic to pull Saffie in from wherever Thorne sent her. Then we drag them both back.”
The Tennessee-lookalike gasped and snapped her fingers excitedly. “Yes.”
“Oh.” Lennox’s jaw dropped. “That might work.”
Henley nodded with big bright sapphire eyes. “It’s the only thing we haven’t tried.”
“For good reason!” Another girl screamed. “Ummm we can’t just go back in there, we almost all died.”
Tegan shrugged. “Willow, we didn’t know what we were doing last time.”
Tennessee spun on her with wide, blazing eyes. “Over my dead body are you going in there.”
Tegan rolled her eyes but a blush hit her cheeks and she smiled. “Babe, I couldn’t go in there again even if I wanted to, remember? I wasn’t volunteering to go, I’ll just make the spell.”
He pointed to the girl who looked like him. “Hope, don’t even think about it. You’re not going.”
Hope rolled her eyes. “Neither are you, brother dearest.”
A red haired guy scratched the side of this head. “So…who is going?”
The violet-eyed pretty blond guy leaned back against the rail. “Not us.”
“Nope,” Emersyn said with a nod then sat beside him.
I know what I must do. It’s just…I’m afraid to do it. I licked my lips and took a deep, shaky breath then raised my hand. “I will volunteer. But just know I’m terrified.”
“What?” Gigi shook her head. “If The Coven won’t go why would you?”
I frowned. “Because Saffie needs us. And I can tell by their faces that someone in this Coven will go and honestly, we can’t risk any of them. So, I will go.”
Gigi threw her hands up. “Fine. I’m going too then.”
“No,” Tennessee barked.
Gigi flinched.
Tenn arched one black eyebrow at her but his eyes were hot as ice. “We cannot risk you shifting uncontrollably and jeopardizing the mission.”
Gigi opened her mouth like she was going to talk back to him.
“You shifted four times already since we got here. I will not speak more on this.”
“But me?” I whispered with my heart lodged in my throat.
Tennessee crossed his arms over his chest. He narrowed those mismatched eyes at me and I felt like I was shrinking. “I’ll allow it. Since you’re so willing to break the law and use black magic I’ll let this serve as punishment for your crimes. If you die, well you would have anyway if Tegan had not intervened.”