Chapter 23 - The BaitI heard voices. They seemed to be in my head, but when I woke fully, I ascertained that they definitely came from outside my room.
“I don't know, she's been asleep all day. I didn't want to disturb her,” Lindee was saying on the other side of my bedroom door, which put her in the living room. “Dante said to let her sleep as long as she needs. I was in there a few hours ago to make sure that, you know, she was… alive.”
“She is alive,” Cho said, confidently.
“How do you know?” Lindee challenged.
“The master would have been down here grieving over her.”
“The master,” Lindee repeated the word in a snide way. “Like he's-he's your master?”
“He has had my blood. He commands me now, and so, yes, he is my master.” I imagined Cho making a head bow at this point to my cousi
