MEGHAN
"Oh, your grandmother's dead."
For a moment, I felt my heart stop.
The words "grandmother" and "dead" were not words I was yet ready to hear in the same sentence: it couldn't be, it just couldn't...
"What?!"
"Relax," Helena smiled. "We simply faked her death."
My heart returned to beating at a vaguely normal pace..
"W-what? I mean, how?"
"Well, my first intention was to fake both of your deaths," Alec explained. "But, as Ellie here pointed out, not only is it much harder to find an unclaimed body of a 19-year-old girl than of a 60-year-old, but it would also have been a bit suspicious. Jim is taking care of it: he's going to drive your grandma's car all the way to Louisiana and work one of his magic spells."
"One of his spells," I commented, skeptical.
"Don't worr
