ASHER
I saw her when I closed my eyes.
I saw her when they were wide open. I saw her in the patterns of the ceiling of my room as I lay staring up at it.
It was like she was haunting my every waking and sleeping moment.
Julia.
A tear, then a stream of tears ran down my cheeks.
It was hard to believe that she was gone. And the worst part? She hadn't even died on her own terms. She had been manipulated by my father and had gone along with his plan without a second thought, all because she wanted so badly to be Luna. And to hurt Hannah.
I thought again of that moment in the arena where she had lain bleeding and broken and very dead on the sand with her murderer standing over her. Just thinking about Hannah made the rage pulse like a pus-filled wound in my head.
My hands grabbed the sh
