Ella was not sure whether she was elated or horrified to discover that she was the cure. Confronting Brad wouldn’t be easy, she would have to practically railroad the truth out of the guy. She found him in his room, twenty minutes after she’d made sure that Sam was deeply asleep behind barricaded doors. She wasn’t taking any risk but confirming this was important to her. The words of the witch came back haunting her. Our ancestors believed that whoever possessed the power of The Healer must be pure and selfless. But he will also be the one disrupting the Equilibrium. Ella wasn’t sure that she wanted to espouse such a huge responsibility after all. To say that she’d been shocked with Sam’s assumptions was an understatement, She would never have believed herself to be someone so impor

