Natalia’s POV
I stared at Damon. He wouldn’t meet my eyes.
“What happened?” The words came out of my mouth, but they sounded like someone else. Like I was just a marionette and someone stronger and less devastated was pulling the strings.
Damon ran a hand through his hair, making the dark strands stick up on the ends. The dirt on his face was streaked with sweat, and there were dark circles under his eyes. He looked like he’d aged ten years in the span of a few days, but I knew it had nothing to do with a ruby.
“We followed his trail to Ellen’s excavation camp,” he said. “Andrei had been there. Hours before we arrived.”
I waited.
“He killed Ellen. Strangled her.” Damon’s jaw clenched. “We found her body in the chamber with the sulfuric pool. And Isaac’s corpse was there too, arranged
