Chapter 8
Juno
Atonic’s head pops out.
Okay, so the cat is out of the bag. Literally.
And Lucius is severely allergic.
He’s staring at the cat like he can’t believe his eyes. “Is that a…?”
“A cat, yes. Afraid so,” I say apologetically.
Lucius transfers his incredulous glare to me. “Is this some sort of an assassination attempt?”
My hackles rise again—a default setting when dealing with Lucius. “What are you, a king? A dictator? Kenny from South Park?”
Having said that, his death-by-cat would look very natural, as far as assassinations go. The perfect crime. What if this is an assassination attempt—just not my doing? Maybe Pearl is not a cheesemaker as she claims, but secretly the top assassin in the world, and she arranged this whole thing: her alleged vacation, her trained killer
