Chapter 226: Summerlands

Laci watched as Alex handed Jayden some hair of Kayla’s from the brush he had confiscated from the young witch’s dresser. Kayla’s parents never questioned why he came to their house without their daughter, or why he needed a hairbrush, Alex being Kayla’s best friend. They bought his explanation of Kayla sending him to fetch her brush without blinking. Her father only said for Alex not to permit Kayla to turn him into some lackey who did all her fetching for her. Alex had laughed and promised not to give in to her all the time.

Now Alex and the Valentine sisters sat in Jayden’s bedroom, where they quickly began to set up a magic circle on the floor with three tall, thick white candles Jayden kept in a chest at the foot of her bed. Their mother was still at work, so the house was empty, but even that made Laci nervous. “Should we be doing this in our home?” she asked, fidgeting on the floor where she sat. “Couldn’t this draw unwanted eyes in our direction?”