Chapter 33: StairsI YANK A blanket up, wince, and squirm a little deeper into the cushions. I need to move, to hurry up and get Ash here to save the day, but the mountain of barriers feels overwhelming.
“What about Ange?” Cadence asks.
I consider it.
“I don’t want to ask for her help. She’s done enough.” Sacrificed enough.
“But what happens to her if you just vanish?”
Oh. At the very least, she’d get in trouble with Ravel for letting me escape. At the worst, it might blow her cover.
“ . . . right,” I say, as if I were totally planning for that as well. “Which is why I’ll—”
“—pretend to be injured until Ravel gets back, and then sneak out when neither of them are around? Good, I thought so.”
I gulp back the bitter taste that rises at the thought of Ravel showing up, expecting to see
