Ella stared at her surroundings in complete stupor, taking in the ruined structure of the abandoned castle. Was that where the man lived? Had he brought her to his lair? What did he intend to do with her?
She didn’t have any other option rather than to sacrifice herself over Sam. After what Queen Alena had sprouted, there was no way Dorian would have spared Sam’s life. It was a personal vendetta. Dorian was after blood, and he was a wounded animal who needed her help.
“Hello?” she cried out when nobody was around. She suspected that was where the Mongrels had been hiding all that time. An abandoned castle. What better hiding place than somewhere no one would look? “Hello? Anybody here?”
“You destroyed my army,” an apathetic voice resonated in the room, and Ella’s head whirled in every d
