KIRA’S POV
The next day, instead of staying in my room until Dead Ted came to drag me off to training… like I usually would, I decided to take a walk around the mansion.
I was careful, though. No wandering into any unfamiliar or eerie places. The last time I’d done that, I had stumbled on Adrian torturing a man with an iron rod, and that had been more than enough to kill any interest I had in touring the mansion. Since then, I have kept to the areas I was already familiar with… and other times, I just stayed cooped up in my room, avoiding everyone and everything.
But today, I needed an escape, even if just for a little while. A library, a garden—somewhere quiet. Somewhere I could breathe.
The past few days had been nothing short of a disaster, and with Kayla and Dylan’s engagement part
