Chapter 4Justin was never far from my mind, but I didn’t want to be pushy, so I vowed not to reach out to him first. At least not unless I didn’t hear from him for a few days. But my thoughts kept drifting back to this intriguing human who clearly needed help and was just as clearly scared to seek it.
But as one day turned into two, then three and four, I started to get a little anxious. I worried he wouldn’t reach out, that his magic would go wonky again, that he’d need help but wouldn’t ask. I was absolutely the type to want to fix things for other people, so it wasn’t surprising to me that I was concerned for him. But the level of worry did shock me. Lowkey fretting was normal for people I barely knew. This amount of concern was not. With each day that passed, he started to take up mor
