NIRELLE

Seeing the gates of the Thamore mansion makes me sick to my stomach; I feel my legs and hands shaky as we approach it. I close my eyes to calm my shaky breath, but it does not work; it is almost as if I had been plunged into some kind of fear.

"Stop the car!" I say, startling the driver and causing him to stop abruptly in the middle of the road. We were so lucky that this wasn't the main road; if it were, then we might have caused an accident.

"Nirelle?" Zane turned to me with his ...