Chapter 34

CALIFF

“What’s wrong? I can feel your sudden anxiousness.”

Shadow was edgy. I felt it through our bond. When she turned around, she was holding the pendant of her necklace. The last time I saw it, it was blue, and now it changed to a liquid red.

“Are you okay?” I asked again when she hadn’t responded to me. Her eyes were wide, somewhat shocked.

“Um, yeah. You were calling me?”

“Yeah. I want you to meet my dad.”

“Oh.” She blushed. Her hand on her heart. “Of course, I can’t wait.” She hadn’t seen my father in a wheelchair behind me. Since Dad had been sick, I’d done everything— met doctors and healers to ask their opinion of his case, but all they could say in the end was he was dying. I talked to a witch I knew, but she couldn’t do anything either.

I moved to my side to introduce my father. “Dad, I want you to meet my—”

Her gaze ascended to my father, and her eyes grew wider as she stepped back. “Oh, Goddess.” Her face was ashen as she