#Chapter 100 Mistakes and Malfeasance

Mira “She said his name was Malachi, though she didn’t know if it was his real name.” “Malachi means falcon,” I said, in a trance. I shook out of it. “How can it be him?” I was in shock, outraged, angry, and sad. An emotional molotov cocktail, ready to explode if I came into contact with a hard surface. “I don’t know,” Dominic answered. “It seems like a cosmic coincidence, but I don’t really believe in it. The universe is vast, but the world is small.” I sat with that, agreeing that too many of the things happening around us seemed to be connected for me not to believe this part of the tale. The man in the glasses, the one who had kidnapped me and Rae and was holding onto Julian, was the same man responsible for the death of Dominic’s mother. It was so absurd that it made perfect sense. “What do we do now?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he said again. “Are you hungry?” I was, so we salvaged the meal he’d been preparing and ate standing up in the kitchen. “We’re still