I stared at her with a slack jaw, equal parts surprised and grateful. So that note had come from her after all, which meant that Zelda had been the first to discover my true identity. Despite the fact that I had left her without so much as a letter, she had still gone out of her way to protect me.G
BiancaIsaac was here. Actually here, in Silvermist, brought here by my invitation… And he was about to meet the son he’d never known existed.Clara was waiting by the front door, her hand resting on the knife at her hip. Always prepared for a fight. Benjamin was leaning against the wall beside her,
The words tasted like ash in my mouth, but they were true. They had to be.Zane’s reflection looked like I’d just stabbed him in the chest. Again. Goddess, I was so tired of hurting the people I cared about.“I’m sorry,” I whispered, turning to face him. “I know that’s not what you wanted to hear.”
BiancaToday was the day. Isaac was coming to meet Callum.Our son.The words still felt like some kind of distant dream, or perhaps a nightmare, even after everything that had happened recently. Five years of keeping them apart, five years of telling myself I was protecting Callum from a monster—an
Isaac held the bottle up and stared at it for a long moment, confused. Did Ella have a perfume that somehow mimicked her natural scent? Isaac had never heard of a perfume like that. But if it were the case, then why would she have it?Unbidden, Isaac’s mind flickered back to the broken perfume bottl
IsaacBianca thought Isaac had tried to have her killed. That he’d ordered his own child to be cut from her womb.He had spent five years thinking they were both dead all because she believed he was capable of such a monstrous act.All because of Ella.Just thinking that name filled Isaac with fury