CHAPTER TWENTY
STUPID EXPERIMENTS
At half-past eight the next morning, I was sitting in Lord Crane’s white living room.
My eyes were scratchy and bleary. I hadn’t gotten much sleep. It had been two in the morning before Mom and I finally went to bed. Even without knowing what doom awaited me today, last night I had felt semi-normal again. Just a daughter catching up with her mother.
No amount of rest, medicine, or food came close to equaling the healing power of one night showered with my mom’s company and love.
Mom didn’t like the fact that she couldn’t accompany me. But it was better this way. She would only feel the need to protect me from whatever Lord Crane had planned, and I didn’t look forward to having them fighting and bickering among each other.
Whatever was to happen today
