The drive back home wasn't to the estate built like a fortress. It was somewhere outside the city.
I frowned. “That's not the way home.”
“I know.” He replied. “We have to lay low for now. I'm taking us to somewhere safe. Somewhere that's totally off grid.”
I didn't say anything after that because no matter how much I wanted to argue, he was right and I knew it.
The estate outside the city was quieter than I expected. No sirens, no alarms blaring through corridors and no guards moving in urgent pairs through hallways that smelled like gunpowder.
It was just a large property sitting in controlled silence while the morning came in pale and unhurried through windows that actually had curtains. I heard that Dante came over after dark but I was too weak to go out and meet him.
I sat on
