Chapter 544

The flight to Budapest had been a long one. I’d tried to sleep as much as I could, but Aurora and Elliott were arguing more than usual. Apparently, she’d thought it would be funny to have all of the Cheetos Elliott had requested taken off of the plane before we left the airport. He didn’t think it was humorous at all, and they spent a couple of hours screaming at each other, airing all their dirty laundry for all of us to hear. Even when Aaron stepped in like he was their dad, it took forever for them to settle down. By the time we got to Budapest, I was exhausted.

But the meeting we had with Mila and the rest of the elite team members the leaders had invited in was invigorating, so by the time we started to climb the mountain where Christian, and Daunator, awaited us, I was wide awake. It helped that Jamie had had enough time to examine the creature Eliza and Sergio had captured and the Healer thought he had an antidote that could save some of the people in