Chapter 137
It was four a.m. when Katelina called her mother. She left a message that said she and Jorick would visit the following evening, then she barricaded herself in the bathroom and took a long hot shower. When she finished, she stared in the mirror and tried to imagine what her mother would say about her appearance. Though drinking the blood from Kateesha's heart had healed her injuries, it hadn't done anything for the scars. All but two were in places her mother wouldn't be able to see. One of them was a lumpy scar on her left collarbone where Jorick's original mark had been before Nirel and Adam gouged it out, and the other was the new mark, directly across from it on her right. It was a set of bite marks with a cross cut underneath it, so it didn't look like it could have occurred naturally. That was the point, of course, but it would make it hard to explain if her mother noticed it.