Noah _____ I was restless when Gia left the room. She was so young, couldn’t be more than twenty years old. She would never be mistaken as innocent; she oozed s*x appeal. I paced the room uneasily in my bare feet, eyes unseeing, my mind ablaze. The night had turned into a crazy rollercoaster ride; I had witnessed things I had only ever read about, met my best friend’s killer, and then had to leave her be. As much as I didn’t like her, as much as I wanted to avenge him, she was the Scion, and she was important to the fate of the world. Now she wanted to leave me in a hotel room while she played detective. I couldn’t just let her go off by herself. What if something happened to her. She could be kidnapped, be hurt, or, Gods forbid, she could die. Then where would we be? I never got

