Chapter Two
CASS
When I woke the next day—the day we were set to travel—sunlight was already filtering through the curtains and warming my face. I lay there, reveling in the joy and excitement that flooded through me.
It had been so long since I’d traveled, and I didn’t even care that Stavrok would be babysitting me the whole time. It was a clear, bright day. I was itching to set out on our journey.
I bounced out of bed, flinging the windows wide open, and inhaled the cool springtime air.
“Someone’s ready for their big day,” a dry, amused voice said from behind me. “Little Cass, twenty-one years old! You’re making me feel my age, child.”
I turned around and grinned at Maddie. She was our head housekeeper; except she was so much more than that. She was part nanny, part adoptive mother
