Chapter 77

Were they still friends? He wasn’t even sure. Alec had acted like he couldn’t be rid of all of them fast enough when he thought they were ganging up on him. Rowan had no idea if this was the way Alec always reacted when backed into a corner or if it was genuine. But seeing him so distant, so unlike every emotion he’d displayed so far, scared Rowan more than was probably healthy.

It didn’t help that Will and Martin were acting like kids about the damn spell they’d found.

“I’ve never seen anyone use crushed eggshells as a timing mechanism before, have you?” Martin asked.