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over. He quickly smiled back but tore his gaze from Adam. Now was not the time to become bewitched by a dark warlock.
     
    He reluctantly brushed the thoughts from his mind and grabbed a few more things before they left the shed and headed back to the Hardwicke’s home.
     
     
                  Logan strolled into the library, his eyes set on Emma. She had been deliberating most of the day whether she should tell Logan or not about the vision. But it seemed to be eating at the back of her mind along with the guilt she felt for talking to Bennett about Ethan.
     
    When Ethan and Adam returned from the house, Ethan ignored her and told Bennett that he and Adam were going to be in the living room looking over Mason’s grimoire. Bennett expressed to Emma that Ethan was just angry, and that he’d get over it eventually.
     
    But something in the pit of her stomach told her that it would be a while before that actually happened. She knew Ethan, and sometimes he held grudges.
     
    Emma swayed her thoughts away from it all and focused her attention on reading an old scroll with the markings of symbols and two long paragraphs that looked to be in German.
     
    She didn’t know German, neither did Ethan. They’d seen it plenty in the books in Mason’s library, but neither ever took the time to learn the language.
     
    Emma noticed Logan as he walked into the room and smiled at him. She was glad that he was okay… for now. When someone looked into a hellhound’s eyes, they could never tell exactly when your death would occur. You just saw it happen.
     
    That scared Emma the most.
     
    The library was elaborately decorated with small gargoyles that were perched on top of the bookshelves, staring downward with eyes that seemed alive.
     
    The shelves reached the top of the skylight ceiling, filled with various amounts of books, but none appeared as old as Mason’s.
     
    It was a small room from the outside, but once inside it felt gigantic. Even though she hadn’t been gone long, it made Emma miss her house tremendously.
     
                  Bennett was sitting in an enclosed desk area that was shielded by bullet and magic proof glass. Symbols had been carved into the glass, glowing once in a while. He told Emma that it was important that his desk be protected, for it contained important documents that no one could ever get their hands on.
     
    She attempted calling out to him but his full attention was on a large book and he could not hear her from within the dome. So she tried her best to do everything on her own.
     
    Even though Bennett had told her that her bloodline was well known, she couldn’t find much about it in the books he’d taken down for her. But the scroll that lay before her oddly had her last name at the bottom left corner.
     
    Logan took a seat at the long table in the middle of the room and leaned over, staring at the scroll.
     
                  “What do you have there?” Logan asked. Emma looked up again and into his eyes, she felt at ease when she looked into them. As if they were somehow connected.
     
                  She cleared her throat and quickly focused herself.
     
                  “A scroll, which is in German, I think. It has my last name on it but I don’t understand it,” Emma explained.
     
                  “Well I happen to know German,” Logan said as Emma handed the scroll over to him. He unrolled it and read it to himself, his eyebrows rising at parts. Something was wrong.
     
    Emma waited until he was done and then watched as he rolled it back up and sat it down on the table. He waited for a moment before he looked at Emma and spoke.
     
                  “That scroll is about one of the darkest warlock’s from our world. He died many years ago… but it says that his grandchildren would bring devastation to our world… Emma, this scroll is about your