"Please, you have to stop!" Rosa begged, her voice frantic as she tried to keep me from bringing the entire house down around our ears.

I ignored her completely. Rosa was just another person in this place who thought she could order me around, and I was done taking orders.

"Master Sullivan is not in his room!" she finally blurted out.

I whipped my head around to shoot her a sharp glare. The second the words left her mouth, a flicker of panic crossed her face—she knew she had said too much.

"Where is he?" I demanded. I didn't care why he was gone; my mind was already racing with...