Chapter 32
After the meeting we met up with Noah and Tessa by the river, at the same swimming hole where we had spent our fateful graduation afternoon. It was humbling to think I could have been dog meat that day—or at least been seriously injured. Even having a Guardian wasn’t a guarantee that nothing could happen to me. My mother’s sudden fall down the riverbank that had caused my father’s death had highlighted that. As I stared into the reflections on the water’s surface I could almost hear her scream as she’d scrambled with me along the river’s edge trying to follow him as he was swept away.
Shaking my head, I started humming the first thing that came to mind to clear away the morbid music but it turned out to be a tragic Nick Cave ballad, which didn’t help at all. In the past I had
