Everything was getting more complicated, and I didn’t know how to handle much more of anything. So when Atlas’ message came through literal seconds after Circe had dropped her bombshell of me I barely managed to keep from barfing up all my breakfast.
“That foolish boy is my son,” Circe laughed wholeheartedly throwing her head back.
Orion, under the pretense of returning to Lucia had taken Bolkin and Layla and ridden a carriage as far as the border before departing and beginning on foot to Circe’s Kingdom. Apparently, he’d managed to discover my location despite not a soul other than Atlas knowing of my whereabouts.
“How charming that our reunion will align perfectly with that of his older sister. Well, we must get you ready to depart at once. Coming into contact with Orion will break th
