The Forgotten Apprentice

Valerie’s POV

I returned to the hospital the next day, after Darius went to work and the girls to school. Before he left, Darius had suggested that I take it easy that day, given everything that had just happened at the banquet and with Reid, but I wasn’t going to just sit around.

It had been some time since the last banquet, and I wanted to check on the boy who had been poisoned. When I arrived a