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because of the fight? Of Devlin?”
     
    I shook my head. “No, a rogue vampire mix led me here. And the supernatural crime is abundant, so I stayed.”
     
    “Have you been back?” she quizzed, turning back to me. “To the house?”
     
    “No,” I said curtly. “I don’t want to go back there.” That house is where my brother Sebastian died, and where I killed my first evil being.
     
    “There’s talk, Sadie, of an evil sorcerer. I think you could be in danger,” she said.
     
    My heart sped up. “Please do not tell me Devlin is back. I will pop over to that house right now and disintegrate his ass myself,” I snarled.
     
    “Language, and no, it’s not Devlin.”
     
    “The Crimson Calamitous? My earlier statement stands,” I responded.
     
    She shook her head, walking back to the bed and sitting. “No, dear Sadie, this evil is far worse than either of them.”
     
    “How can anyone be worse than the CC?” I countered. “I thought he was the most evil and powerful being of all time.”
     
    “Long, long ago, before I was born, before Devlin was born, and before the CC was even thought of, there was a sorcerer who ruled us all. His name was Bram and he was a sadistic ruler, making everyone participate in games for his entertainment. Most died, and he tortured everyone else.”
     
    My mind processed her words. “And why do you think he’s back? Shouldn’t a sorcerer that old be dead? And why would I be in danger?”
     
    “Some of the dark users have been practicing resurrection, and the council has detected a surge of energy in Spain. We believe they’ve succeeded,” she explained.
     
    “What does it have to do with me?”
     
    “He’s after the most powerful of our kind, and Sadie, you are one of the most powerful sorceresses.”
     
    Dumbfounded, I stared at her. What did this mean? What would he do? I wouldn’t follow him or work with him. Could we defeat him? How did those people manage to bring someone back from the dead?
     
    “But he’s in Spain,” I responded.
     
    “For now.”
     
    Hopping off the bed, I paced the length of my bed. I didn’t know if I could handle going back, reliving everything that happened, the memories that would resurface.
     
    “I see you’re in distress, Sadie, but you have to come home. This is ridiculous. You’ve been gone for five years now. Olivia is graduating college in a week and she and Scott are getting married the next day,” Grandma said. “She wants you in the wedding. They both do.”
     
    “I thought they’d be married by now,” I said, stopping in my tracks.
     
    “Both wanted to graduate college and they were waiting for you. We’ve lost too much, and family is all we really have.”
     
    She stood then, coming to stand in front of me. “Sadie,” she said, tucking my hair behind my ear. “Please, come with me. See your family. If you want to leave again, we’ll understand, but everyone needs to see you. Your parents miss you so.”
     
    I picked at my thumbnail. “How are they?”
     
    “Well, but they miss you. Losing Sebastian and then you leaving was really hard on all of us.”
     
    Large tears fell from my face. “I’m sorry.”
     
    “Please come back. Stay two weeks for the celebrations, and we’ll know something about Bram by then, Sadie. You can’t protect yourself from him. You need help to stay safe.”
     
    “I have my friends,” I replied, snapping my head up.
     
    She nodded. “And they are very powerful. I can feel the energy in this apartment, but none of you know how to defeat Bram. I don’t even know how.”
     
    “Then what good will this do, Grandma? Who’s to say he’ll even want me?” I asked. The water fae from the night before was on my mind, though. Her warning. Was Bram the same “he” she spoke of?
     
    Was I already on Bram’s radar?
     
    “Trust me,” she said sternly.
     
    “I’ll come to the wedding,” I said. “But I don’t know if I’ll stay much