EIGHTEEN
She hadn’t declared it to the others, but Rora’s directions had positioned them only a day away from where she had to be. At the time, she hadn’t been sure she’d be stopping for the Point, but Leandra wasn’t more than a seventy-two-hour car ride from the secret everyone wanted to know, so coming this way worked out.
This one piece of the puzzle was always going to be important, no matter how events played out. But since her stay in Bella’s basement, there had been a part of her that wished she could just forget the damn thing had ever existed.
Burying her head in the sand wasn’t going to make anything go away. The damn problem kept chasing her, so she had to confront it.
Coming back to this location was eerie. At one time the building had been her home and now there was a stra
