Chapter 45

After days of not hearing anything from Denis, we assumed he had no intentions of aiding us, so we prepared to leave the city.

Diana had been a mess since she found out her brother was still alive and had not answered her note.

“Do you think he read the message you gave him?” Diana asked me for what seemed like the hundredth time.

We had had this discussion on more than one occasion, and I answered each time in the same manner.

“I don’t know. I only know Denis took it and placed it in his front pocket. Will you tell me what was on that piece of paper I gave him?”

Diana bit her lip while she continued folding some of our clothes. She kept the message secret, not wanting us to know what she had written.

It had caused quite a commotion with Xander, who feared that Diana would betray and sell us out to her brother.

I understood his annoyance, but I also understood the secretiveness Diana was keeping. The Chickadees had knowledge that no one else possessed concerning the contents of