Mira's POV
Elias found me in the library again, which was becoming something of a pattern for both of us, though this time he arrived with an actual purpose instead of simply stealing my breakfast.
"You're coming with me," he announced, dropping into the chair across from mine without waiting for permission.
"Am I."
"You are. Marketplace. Today. No arguments."
I set down the book I'd been half reading, mostly grateful for the interruption, since my mind had spent the entire morning circling uselessly around Adrian's locked door and whatever conversation Rowan had disappeared to have with him hours earlier. Nobody had told me how it went. Rowan had returned quiet and distracted, deflecting every question I'd asked with the same careful vagueness he'd apparently decided, once again, was
