Chapter 20

Meadow’s POV

“What the hell does that even mean?”

Nova’s voice was sharp as a blade, her eyes wide as they were when I told her that Alaric might’ve had Juniper committed.

I sat upright in bed, nothing less than stunned at the last thing he’d said to me before he left. I glanced at the door like he might come back anytime soon and say he was joking. That he didn’t really have my sister locked away somewhere in a padded room.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. 

“He had her evaluated?” Nova scoffed, arms crossed and eyes narrowed like she was ready to burn the entire city down. “Tailored the test so she would fail? That’s…” she trailed off, and to my surprise, let out a short laugh. “That is fucking brilliant.”

I blinked. “What?”

“Think about it,” she said, amusement lacing her voice as she ran a hand through her hair. “He could’ve had her arrested and had you press charges. But that’s more public. Messy. There’s always