BETRAYED BY HER BLOOD, CLAIMED BY THE NIGHT
His small hand clutched the hem of her tunic, his knuckles white in the gloom.
"The shooting stopped because they found something better than bullets," Pella replied, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird. She leaned her ear against the thin metal floor of the vent.
Far below, in the grand hallways of the Montague Estate, she didn't hear the heavy boots of the Triple-Blood guards or the rhythmic shouting of Somito’s scouts. Instead, there was only a sickening, rhythmic hum—a sound like the air itself was being bruised. It was the sound of the Void-Walkers, the Queen’s elite, moving through the physical world as if it were nothing but a thin veil of silk.
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