Chapitre 249: Chapter 249: Coven Help

Erica waited for me in the kitchen. "I just saw Celeste leave." Her expression was troubled, but I just shrugged.

"She has her orders," I said. Erica paused, like she wanted to ask me what happened, but I was already marching downstairs.

Dad looked up, startled, backing off when I approached the pentagram. The witches followed, a long stream of them, faster than I expected, but silently, expectant.

When the last of our family, Meira and Sassafras huddled in the corner with Dad included, had passed the wards, I sealed them with us inside and opened to the family. Mom's mind flickered against my attempt to keep her out, but for now I was in charge.

"The Gate is real." I showed them, dragged them through what I'd been through in the last few hours as they gasped and moaned and raged with me against the Unseelie and the wounding of Fergus.

"Syd," Erica's voice trembled, hands reaching for me as I shrugged her off. "You can't go."