At that command, Penny had frozen in place. A foot up in the air, hand tucked beneath her while the other barely brushed the inside of the circle but nothing was interrupted. She sat down, trying to catch her breath. The thing she’d spat up left a bad taste in her mouth.
Those green eyes were bright with life though the darkness had left. She found Derek and her expression softened. “Derek.” Her voice nearly cracked with a mixture of emotions but she didn’t dare move to go to him. If he even wanted her after all of this, anyway.