CASSANDRA
“I got the test result, Cassy!” Becky exclaimed with excitement as she rushed into the lab the next day. I’d been half-asleep at my desk and close to nodding off when my assistant walked in, and I quickly regained my composure so she wouldn’t notice just how exhausted I was.
Between the encounter with Asher and the situation with the snake in the garden, I’d gotten very little sleep and was feeling a little ghostlike.
“Oh?” I managed to say, and I swept my long hair out of my face and pulled it up into a high bun. “What does it say?”
Becky glanced down at the stack of papers in her hand and quickly, her excitement turned to concern.
“Becky?” I prompted her again when she didn’t say anything. “What does it say?”
“It says it wasn’t Udosyn,” she said quietly, and her lips cur
