Chapter 23
The water felt twice as cold when I slipped back into it a second time. Meanwhile, my mind whirled with questions.
Would I be helping my team or hindering them if I followed Marina’s orders? Was Marina really just a Sleeper? Or did those flower petals point at something deeper and darker—a bona fide member of the fae?
Big-picture, those issues were important. Still, my primary concern was for Harper.
“Your sister will not be impacted by my actions,” Marina had told me. But her words were open to interpretation.
And Harper would trust her teacher implicitly. Marina could have gotten here by car much faster than my best swimming strokes carried me....
So I was annoyed rather than glad when the figure waiting for me at Lupe’s dock materialized into Tank. He held out a huge, f
