#Chapter 110: The Missing Piece

Olivia The frosty silence had thawed slightly between Nathan and me by the end of the week. It seemed as though he had a change of heart after all, and he decided to throw the Council off in order to save Alvin. I respected him immensely for that; he was putting his own livelihood at stake for our childhood friend, and suddenly, I felt like an absolute ass for some of the things that I said to him on the night of our argument. It was like our argument over my father’s eviction, when I discovered that Nathan had spent the last ten years trying to find out what happened, all over again. Even though I still sensed a residual bitterness emanating from him over my so-called ‘feelings’ for Alvin, I was relieved that Nathan had finally agreed to help. The day after our awkward encounter when Nathan told me that he went through on his promise to throw the Council off of Alvin’s trail, I sat nervously at the dining room table with four cups of steaming hot tea set out in f