Chapter 79: Targeted

He worried it might have been a calculated ploy to draw him away. With Giselle Dixon and the child still in the bedroom, he rushed back at once. The geomancer's movements earlier flashed through his mind; he feared the man had laid a curse on the house. When he returned, he found Giselle and the child fast asleep, and he breathed a little easier. If that man had cast something, it was likely aimed at Giselle. To undo it, he would have to start with her. Thinking along those lines, he stepped closer,...