Chapter 112

AXL A fter getting Xavier’s and Malachi’s approval on the wording, I send the email to Eugene Jackson under the watchful eyes of Giorgios. Apart from the few people who know where we are, the rest of the faculty and students at Montridge believe we’re all taking a sabbatical, Professor Drakos included. While Alexandros’s father, the head of House Drakos, has learned of his youngest son’s fate, the news does not appear to have filtered down to the Ruby Dragons yet. And aside from us not being there, it very much appears to be business as usual. “All done?” Giorgios asks. I lean back in the chair, hands locked behind my head. “Yeah.” “Good.” Under the heat of my furious gaze, he quickly closes the laptop in front of me and unplugs it from the router. It’s an old dial-up kind that I haven’t seen since the nineties and had no idea still existed—no Wi-Fi here in Tibet—but right now, it’s our only link to the outside world. Xavier winks at me. Relax, we don’t need it. Why the fuck not? The l