Chapter Sixteen
I stepped outside the Moon Grove Messenger’s offices and basked in the glory of the afternoon sun. It’d been almost a week since my ordeal in the vaults of the bank, but sometimes when I closed my eyes I still felt like I was trapped inside its darkness.
I shook the thought away and walked north on Crescent Street to head home, happy to be calling it quits on the end of another long week. After news got out about the incidents in the bank, I’d had to work extra hard to make sure the secret of Merlin’s Heart didn’t leak out to the wider press.
It was easier said than done, though. The story we ended up running with was that Xander and Ash were after the extensive amounts of money locked in the vaults of the bank, and nothing more than that. Still, people found it hard to
