It takes everything inside of me not to throw Assy aside and jump into Brant’s arms. I couldn’t believe he was actually here. How’d he get here? Where’d he come from? Was Allete here? I immediately dismissed that question because if Allete had been here, she would have been squawking like a pissed-off mother hen telling me to drop the rat and get outside. So, no, there was no way Allete was here.
“They said they’re here to rescue you. Perhaps you should go with them,” Assy suggested, and I peered down at her.
“Why on earth would I do that?” I whispered through gritted teeth.
“Because whether you like it here or not, you don’t belong here. You belong with your family,” the rat answered.
I had to give it to Assy—she was quite the sentimental rat. I hadn’t known that rats had any sort o
