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DAYS WITHOUT SELINA

“I know.”

“Do you?”

“What do you want from me, Virgil? The girl is gone. She’s clearly not coming back. Why are you beating that dead horse?”

“You’re the one sending our guards after her.”

My teeth cracked. “I didn’t send anyone after anyone,” I corrected her. “I just want to make sure she wasn’t caught.”

“And what if she was?” Virgil barked with uncharacteristic anger. “Are you going to swoop into the compound and save her? Throw away the rest of your empire now?”

My jaw dropped at her tone. Never had she spoken to me like that.

“Nothing else has happened since the fire,” I offered awkwardly.

Virgil’s eyes blazed indignantly. “Not yet.”

“If something else were going to occur, it would have by now,” I said with too much confidence.

I wondered if I wasn’t cursing myself further by saying those words, but I also understood the magic behind it well enough to know I wasn’t speaking from an uneducated place. If I had, in fact, opened the floodgates, one casino down would be the least of my
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