Chapter 12

Sarina

I went to Maximus’ room after Jason and I talked and found out that the two witches were gone. Where did they go? “You’re done?” I asked my husband who was sitting in his wheelchair, holding his cell phone, looking like he was waiting for someone. I noticed that he was in a bad mood. Why? It wasn’t because of what I said and did earlier, right?

“Where have you been?” he asked, and I couldn’t figure out why he seemed different from me.

“Just outside. I said I won’t go home, didn’t I?” I answered before asking, “Where are they?”

“If you’re just outside, why don’t you know where they are?”

“I wasn’t informed I needed to look after them too.”

“You’re looking for them, aren’t you? You said you were just outside; you shouldn’t have known they had already left,” he replied angrily.

“Are you angry because of what happened earlier?” I asked but didn't receive a reply. Instead,

“Let’s go home, Sarina,” he said before he got up. Now that he could actually walk, he looked different. His sta