#Chapter 199: Message Received

Asher When I had told Cynthia of my plan to visit Lamar, her entire face had paled and her breath went quiet. It took the rest of the evening to get her to smile again. I had to reassure her many times that I would be going to face him alone. I wouldn’t want to have gone at all, if he wasn’t our last source for information. He had already shared some things. Hopefully he wouldn’t feel many qualms with sharing more. I waited until the next day, until after I walked Cynthia to the library, where Aimee and Nicole were waiting. When I was sure she was safe, I went back to my dorm room alone to meditate. Every time I had seen Lamar since the incident I had wanted to rip his throat out with my teeth. I needed to center myself first, or this visit was destined to be too short to garner any new information. I pressed down the desire for violence deep inside of myself, reminding myself that Lamar would never be near Cynthia like that ever again. He couldn’t hurt her. She didn’t need pro