*Cat*

I paced in front of the door, unable to sit down and wait for Elio. He had spoken to me only long enough to tell me that the meeting had gone horribly and that we were going to go to war. I didn’t know what he meant by that, but I knew it wasn’t going to be good.

I was already bracing myself for Elio to insist that I be locked away in a safe house until every last one of Ignacio’s men had been killed. I knew that I would have to play that ...