43

ADELINE

Reid has been gone longer than I expected.

I frown. Didn’t he just go to get the door? It shouldn’t take this long.

I try not to let my mind spiral, but it’s hard when everything seems to be crashing down around me.

First, Cade and all the memories he dragged back into my life. Now, this—my family’s name, plastered across the internet like a headline in some twisted fairy tale.

I force mys