Chapter 237

• Maeryn Voss, the famed hybrid combat instructor at Ashmoor Academy, was equally versed in magic as she was in battle. Riley had met her once before. On that occasion, Maeryn had told her—quietly but firmly—to return once she had found her missing kidney, promising to run another examination.
• Now, with Mia at her side, Riley stepped onto Ashmoor’s grounds. She retraced the path toward the professor’s office from memory, her heart heavy with a mixture of hope and dread.
• But when she reached the door, it wasn’t Maeryn who greeted her—it was a young man with clipped brown hair and the crisp posture of an assistant.