Arabella
That was way too close. I think, breathing a much needed sigh of relief. It’s only because of dumb luck – that my potion maker was stopping by to drop off my most recent order – that I even managed to inject Bastien with the sleeping solution.
I suppose there was some cunning involved – I had prepared the syringe and kept it in my purse for emergencies just like this, but I’d hoped I wouldn’t ever need to use it. After helping me drag Bastien to bed and charging me extra for the labor, my sketchy contact left as swiftly as he came, leaving me to try to sort out what to do about Selene on my own.
Injecting enough memory potion into Bastien that I’m afraid I might actually have to start my plan over all the way from scratch, I take a page out of the Alph
