Chapter 137

Esther looks around the room at everyone. No one is talking. Probably, no one knows what to say, just like her. But then she realizes that she doesn’t know why Tasha, Lilia, and Damion are home a day early. So, she asks them and Tyrus explains what he saw. This confirms Esther’s resolve that Evarius is up to no good, but it brings up another issue in her mind and she says, “Ty, is there any chance that Sabina took you to the meeting place on purpose.”

It is clear from the look on Tyrus’ face that he had not thought of it this way.

“I cannot say for sure that she did not,” says Tyrus slowly, “she acted like she didn’t know where she was headed, but it could have been on purpose.”

“So,” Esther says, “based on this information, either Sabina has a death wish too or she doesn’t know what might happen if Evarius dies or she is telling the truth and is not working with him or maybe she is working against him. Now, my optimistic self wants the last option to be true, but we don’t know... so,