Chapter 132

I fluttered my eyes open, feeling the bright morning sun stream through the small window. Nothing from yesterday was a blur—I remembered it all very clearly.

Mom and Esther, Baelor, fleeing to the cave…

A weak sigh escaped my lips. It was officially graduation day, and I couldn’t help but wonder what our friends were doing at the moment.

Would they be searching for us?

Would that old man, Principal Sterling, have forced them to focus on graduation instead?

They must be so confused right now.

We had all worked so hard for four years to get to this point—only for it to be ruined by some God of the Underworld, and none of them even knew.

But I didn’t care…

He was safe. Alaric was safe, and that was all that mattered—

My breath hitched, and my head turned in less than a split second. “Alaric?”

I patted the empty spot beside me, then sat up straight, scanning the room. My eyes landed on a small note on the nightstand.