Arius POV
I storm into Ezra’s room expecting to see Ruby still curled up in the king-sized bed looking lost and helpless, but instead I am met with a very different scene. As I took in the scribbled pieces of paper scattered around the bedroom floor and Ruby dressed head to toe in a black outfit that looked fit for an assassin, I had to do a double take.
“Ruby? What’s all this?” She turns quickly from her position by the window and zooms towards me, pulling me by the arm into the room and locking the door. My eyebrows pull together as her eyes dart manically between mine. She looked hyper. High on something. She better not be! “Ruby! I’m pleased to see you are out of bed but you are starting to scare me and that doesn’t happen easily.”
“Dad. We have to do it now,” she says hurriedly a
