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"I think it would be smarter to get you out of the city to safety first. Then you can make a plan when your life isn't hanging in the balance," I say, trying one more time to get her to see reason.
"No, I like my idea better," Blair says. "I'll cast the spell and then go to the coven to inform them of what's going on. Then we can rally some of the other factions to defend us against the Arman and the clan."
"None of the other supernatural factions are going to be very pleased to hear that the vampires are causing trouble again. Some might be resistant to getting involved at all."
"Yes, but others will stand with us. I just need to buy a little time to talk with my sisterhood and figure it out."
I wish she would just listen and let me take her away from to a safe location, but she won't.
As dusk ends and the moon peeks into the sky, Blair begins to harness its power with a ritualistic series of chants that I can't understand.
"It's time," she says as she stands up and readies herself to cast the binding spell.
I'm honestly surprised that the vampires haven't shown up at her apartment yet. I wonder what's causing the delay, but I'm thankful for it because Blair is a sitting duck. And while I've been here at her apartment, I haven't once thought about how I would explainmypresence here if and when the other vampires arrive.
Blair stands in front of the wide apartment windows and lifts her palms in the air. There seems to be a glow of moonlight emanating from them. Without knowingexactlywhat is going on, I'm guessing she's casting the binding spell. And after a few minutes, she simply stops, like it's over.
"There," she says with a satisfied sigh. "It's done. I'm going to warn the other witches now. You shouldn't come with me because they don't trust you yet. But if you want to stay here for a bit instead of going back to the den, you can."
Blair grabs her jacket and pulls a pair of black boots on before racing out the door. She doesn't even turn to look at me before she goes.
But if she took a second to glance in my direction before she left, she'd see what she did.
The binding spell worked, but the only problem is that instead of it just targeting Arman and the rest of the clan, it's boundmeas well.
5
BLAIR
I'm about to leave my apartment building when I realize that I forgot my phone. So I turn around and go back to retrieve it. But I forget about the phone again when I open the door and see what's lying inside.
Or rather,who.
Treyton is frozen on my apartment floor.
"Shit," I say, realizing what must have happened as soon as I see him.
The spell I cast must have bound Arman and the rest of the vampires, but it's also rendered Treytonimmobile.
Normally, binding spells work a bit differently, but this one that I cast is a creation all my own. And with the harnessed energy from the lunar eclipse, it's more powerful and unstable than my other spells. The magic will prevent the vampires from making any movements, toward me or anyone else—hence the immobilization. But even though it has done its job, I now have an incredibly handsome vampire lying motionless on my floor like a beautiful dead weight.
Ican'tjust leave him here while I go to the coven. He can't even move his lips to speak. What am I supposed to do now that the only vampire who is on my side is incapacitated?
"I'm sorry," I say to Treyton as I kneel beside him and push a couch pillow beneath his head to cushion it from the hard floorboards. "I guess I didn't really think that through all the way."
I look at his eyes, which are staring back at me, transfixed, because he can't even manage a blink. I'm pretty sure that if hecouldmove anything, he would be rolling his eyes at me right now, and probably giving me a solid frown too. The spell was careless; I won't deny it.
"It will wear off," I reassure him. "I'm not sure when, but it will."
Since there isn't anything else I can do to help him at the moment, and there is still the matter of the vampire clan coming after the coven, I grab my phone and message the other witches to tell them to meet me at my apartment. It's unusual for one of the coven sisters to call an emergency, meeting at one of our apartments, so, Sybil, Elspeth, and Isla all come quickly, knowing that something must be very wrong.
"I don't know whether to be shocked that the new vampire clan leader is doing an about-face with his whole agenda," Sybil says, "Or that there is a frozen vampire on your floor."
"He's notfrozen," I correct her. "He's just temporarily enchanted."
Elspeth looks at me and gives me the eyeroll that I know Treyton wishes he could do himself.
"Alright, it was a mistake," I say with a huff. "It's not like Iwantedto freeze him. But I had to dosomethingbefore Arman and his goons came after me."
