"There has to be another way." Owen had been saying that for two days straight. Two days of desperate planning. Two days of searching for alternatives. Two days of refusing to accept that I might have to give up everything I had just gained. "We have looked at every option," Theodore said tiredly. We were gathered in the war room at coalition headquarters. Every supernatural expert we could find. Every ancient text we could access. All looking for a way to seal The Architects without Aurora and me becoming eternal prisoners. "What if we found other royal bloodlines?" Juniper suggested. "Mary's research showed there were dozens of bloodlines The Covenant hunted. Some might have survivors in hiding. If we could find them, they could share the burden." "That would take years," Serena said

