Synthia’s POV
As I leaned in to find what was inside the secret compartment, I felt my brows raise in confusion. A book?
I took the book out and felt around the drawer, trying to see if anything else was in there. I frowned when I saw that there was nothing else in there. Why would my mother hide a book like this? What was in it that it needed to be hidden?
Then my eyes widened as a thought occurred to me. Maybe she had left a clue as to where she had hidden the weapon piece? Bubbling with hope, I closed the drawer and took the book in my hand. I narrowed my eyes when I saw that the book was titled, ‘The Dragon ritual: why it is forbidden. It sparked a memory somewhere in me. But I was too excited by the thought of finding any clues to the whereabouts of the missing weapon piece to thi
