Chapter 42 ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

I prepared to leave alone before dawn so nobody could tell me the trip was a bad idea.

This required ignoring the fact that I had already told Garrick where I was going.

I left a page of instructions on the kitchen table, another in Iris’s office, and a third beside Barley’s untouched food bowl. D...