6
LAVINIA
For the next two days, I was allowed to move through the villa, Chess or some other warlock trailing me, but I couldn’t leave the mansion or wander too much.
As much as I hated to admit, it was boring to sit in my room and do nothing. Of course, I used that time to try to come up with a plan to escape, or destroy the boxes they had, or maybe destroy the prototype, but nothing I planned panned out. Every time I tried to find a way, a clue, something, anything that would let me escape this place, my plans were foiled. The warlocks saw it all and stopped me.
And, whenever possible, they inflicted pain through the potion in my veins.
They weren’t stupid.
On the third day, Eldon called for me. Chess was the one who escorted me to the summoning room, then left me there with the o
