Chapter 43

• The door swung open with a bang, startling Elroy and I both and breaking the moment we were suspended in. Astor sauntered in, his lips curled into that infuriatingly smug grin I'd come to both dread and secretly appreciate. He’d been more endearingly annoying than truly problematic recently, but that was without Elroy in the same room.
• "Well, well, what do we have here?" Astor drawled. "Hard at work, I see. I brought you this.”
• My eyes locked onto the thick manila folder in his hand, and I instantly perked up. "What's this?" I asked, unable to keep the intrigue from my voice.