Chapter 91

AXL Ophelia sits between Xavier and Malachi on the sofa. I lean against the fireplace, and together, we watch Alexandros pace the floor of the den. There was definitely something off about him on our way back to the house, something bigger than what happened to Esme. And it seemed to have something to do with whatever he saw in Bones’s memories. I filled Xavier, Malachi, and Ophelia in on what we found in the woods, and now we’re waiting for the professor to tell us our next move. “What will happen now?” Ophelia asks. Alexandros stops pacing and stares at us, his face unreadable. “Osiris will alert President Ollenshaw, and he will call a faculty meeting. But before that, there are things we need to discuss.” I twist my neck until it cracks, feeling tense and unsure. Whatever it is that he has to tell us doesn’t seem like a good thing, at least from where I’m standing. We wait with bated breath, and I am sure that in all my two hundred years with him, I have never seen him so seemingly