PENNY POV
We reached the forest in two cars.
Not because anyone wanted to split up.
Because Daddy and Pops both looked like they were one wrong breath away from murdering someone, and apparently putting them in the same vehicle as Marcellus was considered bad strategy.
Daddy drove the first car with mom and me.
Pops rode with Marcellus and Liam.
Not because he trusted him.
Because he absolutely f*****g didn’t.
He wanted to make sure the dark warlock followed through. That he didn’t vanish into shadow the second things got complicated. That he didn’t lead us into a trap, laugh like the cryptic bastard he was, and leave us searching for my sister in the wrong stretch of forest while Perse bled somewhere underground.
Persefone.
My throat closed around her name.
I pressed my nails i
