Cierra:
“Cierra, wake up, quickly!” Dominic’s voice, urgent and rough, shook me from the sleep I felt I had fought for.
“What’s going on? I was sleeping so—” One shake of his head stopped my grumbling.
“The elders have called another council after the rise of new evidence about the rogue attack; you are being summoned.” I shot upright, staggering from his bed and into my bedroom. My heart was hammering so fast that it ached.
I grabbed clothes, the same kind of clothes I wore the last time, only this time, I barely had time to finger through my hair and pee before Dom was pulling me alongside him to the council meeting.
The council chamber smelled faintly of smoke and cedar, its air thick with expectation. The elders sat in a crescent of carved chairs, their eyes sharp, their voices mu
