CHAPTER FOUR
The lights of the Institute faded behind me. Once I was enveloped in the canopy of the trees with nothing but stars twinkling overhead, I felt I could breathe again. Sir Raleigh had fallen asleep again. His heartbeat beat double time to mine. I would have to figure out what to do with him while abroad. Hopefully Veronica would keep him for me. He hadn't pulled his disappearing trick on me again. No, he had, but to find me.
"What am I going to do with you, Little Lad?" I asked him. The thought of leaving him, even though I hadn't even had his company for a full day, tugged at my heart. The heart I didn't want to admit to having. Yeah, the kitten needed to go back.
I rounded a bend. The sensation of a dark gaze brushing over me made me slow the bike rather than accelerate and
