" You stole it?”
Mada glanced around the campo, but the square was empty. “Keep your voice down.” She stared at the stones around Cass’s neck. “You really don’t remember where you got it?” Mada asked.
Cass managed to shake her head.
Mada shivered. “It’s another bad omen. I feel like something terrible is going to happen.”
A gust of wind sent a ribbon of cold all the way up Cass’s spine. “You’re not the one wearing it,” she said, struggling to sound as if she were joking. “Maybe it’s a bad omen for me.”
The thought seemed to cheer up her friend. “Maybe,” Madalena said. "

― Fiona Paul , Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1)