Chapter 18Once Will was set up, there wasn’t much for Rowan to do. He didn’t want to sit back and watch like Martin was doing, and Alec was practicing moving pennies around with his magic. If he asked, Alec would keep him company, but that possibility left him ill at ease. Alec needed to get more comfortable with his abilities, and what could they feasibly do together that was beneficial to the situation anyway?
“I’m going to patrol,” he announced after an hour of restlessness. His only other option was to go back to his dad’s room, but after getting shooed out earlier, he wasn’t sure he could manage awkward silence while they both sat there not talking about the one thing Rowan thought they had to.
Martin and Alec looked up at him with matching frowns. “You don’t have to do that,” Marti
