Elara's POV
I had made a terrible mistake.
It was a reckless, foolish, heart-shredding mistake. I should never have gone to the cliff side fields and I should never have let Henry see me, not even under a spell that was to disguise me.
But panic and longing had mixed into something harzardous, and now I as paying for it. And the universe...no, fate was cruel enouyto complicated everything within seconds.
One moment I was trying to walk away from Henry without raising suspicion and the next, Vampires stepped out of the trees, surrounding us.
The cliff side suddenly felt too small and exposed. The air turned cold as though the night itself had stopped breathing. This was exactly the kind of place Vampires liked to hunt. I had known that and I had even been burned about it in my trainin
