“Aunt Tillie seemed convinced.”
“I fear what she’s going to do to fix the problem.”
Landon blew out a sigh. “Well, keep me in the loop.”
“You do the same. If you run into any arachnids, call me. I can get Evan to you fast. He can help kill them without being seen.”
“Let’s hope we don’t need to go there. Steve is really gung-ho to take the whole team out to look around.”
I balked. “Cam and Hodgins too?”
“Yup. He eventually wants them to know everything we know. We’re not there yet, so don’t get worked up.”
“Okay.” I pressed the heel of my hand to my forehead. “This is turning into quite a day.”
He leaned in and kissed me. “It’s going to be okay. We’ve taken on bigger enemies than whatever this is.”
He sounded certain of himself. “Talk to me again if Millie makes her presence known.”
“Don’t get me going on Millie. The whole thing freaks me out.”
He wasn’t the only one.
EVAN WAS PROMPT. HE DIDN’T SAY MUCHbefore we headed out. I had to fill him in on the Millie problem.
“What?” He was flabbergasted as I pulled to a stop on the road.
I nodded. “I’m ninety-percent positive that Millie is real and she’s running around freely.”
Evan waited for me to reach him in the tall weeds before speaking again. “It’s probably not good I saw Tillie leaving her greenhouse with a sword right before you found me, right?”
“Are you serious?” I asked.
“Yup.
“Why didn’t you stop her?”
He shot me an incredulous look. “Since when can anybody stop her?”
“You could’ve taken the sword from her.”
“I think the four-wheeler is more dangerous. She can’t even hold the sword up for more than a minute or so. It will be fine.”
I wasn’t so certain.
“We’ll look for her when we’re done here,” he promised. “If I’d known she had a doppelgänger running around I would’ve said something.”
“Do you think it is a doppelgänger? I thought maybe she created her own figment.”
He considered it for several seconds. “I actually don’t think it’s a figment.”
“Millie said that Aunt Tillie let her out before. That doesn’t sound like a doppelgänger. Doppelgängers are from mirror worlds.”
“How do you know Tillie hasn’t accessed our mirror world?”
I’d never really considered the existence of mirror worlds. I knew they existed—I’d read about them in various books—but they were supposed to be virtually impossible to access. It wasn’t like opening a plane door. A mirror world was too similar to the original to allow access between the two.
“How would she have gotten her doppelgänger out of the mirror world?” I asked. “That’s supposed to be impossible.”
