I gripped the hilt of my dagger tightly and started up the slope again. Once we reached the top, I found myself looking back toward the rundown cabin in the distance, and all I could think was that if it had not been for Mio, I would probably be dead too, swallowed up like that man had been.
"We can wait for two hours," I said as I followed Ken along the path. "Once they are gone, we could go back into the city."
"And they would send us here again," Ken replied with a slow breath. "No chance. We have to do this. We don't have any other options."
Yeah, I had thought so too. Fucking Queen sending me out on an errand because I hadn't fed her ego or played along with the whole case like she wanted.
Yeah… the case. There was also the third suspect I still needed to find, and now everything felt like it was piling on me all at once. I just needed to finish this stupid task and get back to the city.
