Chapter 59

*****Erika’s POV***** I ran inside the room, my heart beating in my chest. My vision got blurry, my knees wobbled. Oh Mother of the Moon, what have I done? Where was my brother?! Where was Jace? His room was quite big so maybe he was hiding somewhere, this was some sort of prank, just as it used to be when we were pups. He would run into his room for a hide-and-seek, I usually hid in his room too especially when dad was the seeker. It would take time for dad to find us, so maybe that was happening now. “Jace.” I ran into the bathroom, nobody was there. “Jace!” I made a beeline for his private library where he slipped into whenever he did not want to be disturbed. It was his cocoon of solitude and once inside, nobody dared disturb, well except for dad and sometimes me. “Jace!” I refused to look at the closet that was telling me the truth. No, it could not be. He could not have just left. No, it was just my eyes deceiving me. He was here. Somewhere. “Jace!” But even as I argued with myse