Chapter Seventeen
Kara was the one who came and got me. I didn’t know what Persephone had said to her, exactly, but whatever it was, my sister was fairly subdued, and didn’t start in on how I’d been stupid to get involved with Martin when I knew nothing about him, or any of that sort of thing. No, she just asked if I wanted to go home, and I nodded without speaking. Never mind that a lot of my day-to-day stuff was still up at the Forest Houses cabin. I had a spare toothbrush and some sample sizes of shampoo under the sink in my bathroom. I’d make do.
It wasn’t that far from Persephone’s place to my apartment. As Kara parked her Prius in an empty spot in front of the stairs to my unit, I was overcome by an enormous feeling of inevitability. So much for that sensation I’d had as I left wit
