There was no point staying hidden anymore.
I stepped out from behind the broken wall, Dominic and Marcus close behind me, and the woman didn't so much as blink at our arrival, like she'd been expecting exactly this moment since the second we'd slipped through that side door.
"Elena." Kian's voice cracked with something between relief and terror. "You shouldn't be here."
"Neither should you," I said, keeping my eyes fixed on the woman standing calm and unbothered in the center of the ruined hall. "But here we both are."
"Clever," she said, almost approving, turning the small vial slowly between her fingers. "I confess, I expected a rescue attempt eventually. I simply didn't expect you to be quite this patient about your entrance."
"You said you needed something from my child," I said,
