We had to get in front of this. We needed the man’s name now and we couldn’t risk anyone overhearing. Sy raised an eyebrow when I walked in. I shook my head and he motioned me back to his apartment behind the bar. “Send Lily back,” I told him as I walked past. “As you wish, Erlking,” Sy said with plenty of sarcasm. I smiled as I went into his shabby apartment. One thing I loved about Selene’s family was they were all headstrong and did as they pleased—well, all of them except her father, who had followed my father’s every wish—including abandoning his own child. My smiled melted away as I sat on the ratty couch. What was Tahlik planning? Was power really worth hurting his daughter again? The thinly veiled threat from my meeting with him still weighed heavily in my mind. I tried to help him, to reunite the two of them, but Selene couldn’t do it and I couldn’t blame her. The man was the scum of the earth walking away from her as a baby. If Sy’s mother hadn’t taken her in, what would have happened to her?
