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“Meet me at five tomorrow morning next to the Frogman field. You can leave now,” Lysandra said to me.
“So I am really staying? Huh?” I said, trying so hard not to squeal or scream. When I thought about how everything would change after today, my stomach twisted. It fet like someone was making weird balloon animals with my intestines, but there was also some kind of nervous excitement too.
She gave me what looked like a quarter of the smile and nodded. “Yes. Welcome to Alerean, Miss. Tamran.”
“Thank you, Miss?”
“Cross. Lysandra Cross.”
“Cross? As in…” A gasp left my lips. “You know Cade?”
She gave me a curt nod and from the look in her eyes, I knew she didn’t want to talk more about Cade. I watched her curiously as she walked away.
“She knows Cade,” I said to Asher before I
