Lucy
My heart lurched. “What do you mean? You just said that it was supposed to protect me.”
“It is,” she said.
“How is killing me protecting me?”
She turned with a wry smile. “It shows how young you are that you can’t imagine a fate worse than death.”
“I—”
My mind jumped back to the sneer of that luna who had come to tell me about what my duties to Matt and Tony were. The thought of dying in pain, giving birth to a child I didn’t even want, or being alive and forced to see that same child every day…
My stomach churned, and I looked down.
“N-Never mind,” I said. “I… But why?”
“The person who put it on you probably thought it would be broken by now,” she tilted her head. “Or there was supposed to be something else powering it until you were strong enough to break it yourself. Eit
