“Your only role is to be the messenger. It's better when you don't know any details. If the Castiglianos follow my orders, Francesca will be returned to you within the week. I must go now.”
“Wait, I don't know what they did—”
“Goodbye, Kellan. We shall speak no further until I get a sign from them that they understand.” Cristiano hung up on me. How would they give him a sign? Shoot up a Harry Potter Dark Mark in the sky? I had to be missing information that would clarify what was combusting into flames around me.
My energy level soared after the phone call, and I ran back to Danby Landing more quickly than it'd taken me to get to the mountains. Arriving home, I showered and changed, dropped Nana D off at the administrative building in downtown Wharton County, and zoomed to Braxton where
