Chapter 25

• An hour was far too long to get ready. I brushed my hair and changed my clothes in ten minutes, leaving fifty minutes to contemplate how horribly my fractured life had been upended. When the hour passed, Sebastian knocked on my door. He didn't wait for me to answer; he simply poked his head inside until his eyes locked on mine.
• "Ready to go?" Sebastian asked, his eyes shining brightly.
• I nodded, grumbling something unintelligible, and stood up. While my face was somehow miraculously healed, my ankle was anything but. Occasionally, a dull pain would twitch up my ankle, making me wince.