Jenna POV
All I needed was a quick confidence boost from my mother to make me change my mind about helping Gio. He trusted me enough to ask for my help, and I wasn’t going to take that for trust for granted. Mom even volunteered to reach out to the adoption agency to see if they had any contact information on my biological parents, and I was so relieved that she didn’t feel upset or betrayed by the whole situation.
After dinner, which was big and loud and perfect, I went back to my cottage and grabbed the vial that had been left to set on my window sill for the past two days. Its contents had finally reached the electric blue color the recipe said it should, and I was excited to see that I had successfully created my very first potion! I placed it, and the to-go plate I’d made for
