Chapter 10 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

Garrick arrived after dark to retrieve his dragon and found him asleep on my pillow. He stood in the bedroom doorway with his coat still buttoned, looking at Cinder as though a stern enough expression might wake him.

“I did try the basket,” I said. “He waited until I left the room.”

Cinder lay cur...