MAXINE

Seeing the spell caster meant that Liam considered this a serious issue. I snatched my hands back gently.

"There's no need," I said, remembering how Alaric had sounded when he was casting a spell. How the whites of his eyes had covered his irises and made him look like a creature of pure evil with all that makeup on his eyes.

I didn't want that same man to tinker with me to find out what was wrong with me when surely, he hadn't dealt with anything like that.

"If I wait a few more ...