Chapter 19

WILLOW.

Ugh.

What was I thinking?

Waiting till ten? I am not that patient!

Under normal circumstances, I would have flown off the edge and taken the girl myself.

Fortunately -or unfortunately- depending on the perspective, the ingredients I would need for the ritual are in my house.

The one where I had kept Lyra all these years.

Which is why, I am now trekking around the moist forest floor, heading there.

I wave away the weaved enchantment hiding my access and come into the clearing, only to stop dead in my tracks.

There are people here.

Wolves.

I guess that answers my question. Lyra is in the Varon pack.

Still, this is fast.

I did not expect to manage to track me down this fast. There is no way she could have been able to direct them here. She doesn't know anywhere.

This was somebody else.

I fall back into the shadows, watching as they move around the place before walking into the house.

This… is a complication.

I know they are here for me and by all logic, I should just kill them a