"He just sat there? And said nothing!"
Cassy was angry, rightly so. I, on the other hand, could feel nothing. Those chants rang in my ears, the demand for my blood haunting me, the feral look in their eyes.
"What am I going to do, Cas? Every decision I make seems wrong; in such a little space, I've been thrown into a war that is so much bigger than me than all of us. But all my head and heart seem to want is him."
She squeezed my hands. We were sitting in her room on top of her bed, the setting sun shining in the long windows, the pops from the fire making me flinch.
"You just need to be the queen I know you are. You are Hunter Crescents, mate; snap out of this and act like it."
My head dropped, and I was fighting back tears.
"I'm so tired, so tired of fighting."
My heart was a
