KADE

“Lyla?” I asked and frowned. “What makes you think Lyla would be able to get her to come here?”

“They are friends,” he answered and sighed. “She’s possibly the only friend Ella has here in Dennison, so hopefully that should count for something.”

“I doubt that it would,” I replied, and he shrugged.

“Well, do you have any other suggestions? Because the way things are right now, as much as I hate to admit it, we need her. That damned orb was the final straw. If it was glowing simply because she touched it, then maybe we were wrong…”

“You better not be admitting that rejecting her as our...