SUMMER
The rest of the week went by like a blur.
I developed a routine — Wake up early. Find the coffee that Sera always left outside my door. And ride Elara's bicycle to school before anyone else noticed I was gone. Keep my head down. Go to class. Come home. Study.
The studying had two tracks.
Track one was the normal kind — homework, essays, the AP Literature reading that was piling up because Hearthstone Prep's curriculum was significantly more demanding than Crescent Ridge's, and I refused to fall behind in anything that might give Camille ammunition.
Track two was chapter seven.
I read it until I could recite it. The wolfsbane plant — Aconitum lycotonum — grew wild in mountainous regions and certain old-growth forests. The harvesting had to happen during the new moon cycle. The
