Chapter 38
While Rylee processed the weight of the revelation that Aurora’s powers were manifesting prematurely under the sheer pressure of their circumstances, Warlord and the bounty hunters moved with calculated urgency to pinpoint her location.
At the airport, Warlord rendezvoused with Aries and Lacie. Angelo, one of the steadfast guards from Blue Lake, went with him. Meanwhile, deep within the bowels of the castle, Poseidon sifted through the remnants of Layla’s life. He searched for a needle in a haystack: any evidence of a clandestine connection to the birth mother she had never known. By some stroke of luck, her personal effects had been spared from destruction, relegated instead to the castle’s basement—a cold, subterranean archive where forgotten things went to die.
At the same
