A Spell of Time (A Shade of Vampire #10)(51)

As the corpse began swirling around in the air, her head snapped back at an almost ninety-degree angle, the faceless woman in white drew closer to me. And a face formed. The face of my young Rose.

Tears of blood spilled from her green eyes.

“Auntie.”

“Vivienne. Wake up!”

I opened my eyes, gasping for breath. Xavier stared down at me, gripping my shoulders and shaking me. I was in our bed. I sat up and leaned against the headboard. Xavier’s face was stricken with worry—an expression that everyone on the island had shared since Rose had been discovered missing again.

I dropped my head in my hands, trying to piece together my jumbled mind. I could barely form a coherent sentence. I was thinking in fragments, thoughts assailing my mind so fast I couldn’t keep up with them, much less articulate them.

“They know something.”

“What?”

“About the twins. We’ve been mistaken in thinking there’s nothing different about them.”

“Vivienne, who’s—?”

“We need to discover what the twins have. Before it’s too late.”