Ever since we got back to Vilkas’ house, I still couldn’t stop thinking about what the woman told me. I just couldn’t understand how and why her words were somehow pointing out what’s going on around me now?
I knew I wasn’t just imagining her. She’s real. But the woman disappeared just when Lily arrived.
And now, I’m more confused than I already am. What’s real and what’s not? What exactly is the truth?
Releasing an exasperated sigh, I stared at the bunch of paper bags laid out on the bed. The fact that I’m now in the world of my kind, showered with all this humane stuff and no longer locked up in the four borders of Maytown and yet there’s still this big hole inside of me.
I am so lost now.
“Miss Ellie, Master Vilkas has arrived.” Lily announced from the other side of the door. “He w
