Madeline’s POV
Darius and I headed straight for Ruislip Woods from the airport. It had been a gruelling flight, listening to Darius drone on and on about battle strategies until his excitement caused him to fall asleep and snore like a hog. There was no rest for me as I still could not shake this looming dread that kept catching me off guard. I couldn’t relax as I felt I needed to be constantly alert. The encounter with Cora and my argument with Logan last night had not helped matters.
When we arrived in the woods, it was already 9:00pm and the meeting was due to start. We hurried through the public nature reserve until we found the crumbling stoned wall. Removing decoy stones, we crawled through and found ourselves in the familiar shelter of shady glades and the mossy pillow of the fo
