Chapter 88
The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the sidewalk as Dante stood outside Riverside Elementary, watching the chaos of dismissal unfold with the weary patience of someone who'd done this dozens of times before and was numb to the chaos that it brought.
Children poured out of the building in waves, their voices high pitched and excited, their backpacks bouncing, as they made their way to their respective parents.
Rhysand emerged near the middle of the children group, his dinosaur backpack nearly as large as he was, his baseball cap—mandatory outdoor wear to protect his sensitive skin, or so Dante told anyone who asked—pulled low over his face. But even with the cap and the child-sized face mask he wore because "Papa says the air makes me sneeze," Rhysand's eyes were visi
