Looking anywhere for a silver line, I froze—utterly stunned—as I watched my brother walk in… holding hands with one of the vampires who had been harassing me.
I didn’t speak. I couldn’t. My body felt too heavy, too slow, too full of betrayal. It wasn’t just the nausea anymore. It was the ache of realizing that everything I thought I understood had been flipped inside out. Kody was smiling. Holding her hand like… like he loved her.
What the hell was going on?
The dull ache in my stomach pulsed. I pressed my palm to it, trying to keep the sickness down. The dizziness was worse today. I hadn’t had real food in days, and this cage—this actual cage—was making it hard to breathe. Maya and Mariarosa had said I’d be safer here. That they’d “handle” things. But all they had done was hand me over
