Chapter 9They drove down the mountain ridge in silence. Gael should say something, but he didn’t know where to start.
“Are you okay?” Archie put a hand on his thigh and squeezed lightly.
It took a second before he found his voice. “She didn’t used to be like that.” To see Adriel confused hurt him and he suspected dissolving the coven had been someone else’s idea. He didn’t blame them. They couldn’t have a coven leader who wasn’t in her right mind. It sometimes happened that the ancient were touched by insanity when their brains failed to regenerate as they should, but Gael had never seen it before.
“Will she die?”
A lump formed in Gael’s throat. “Not unless they decide to kill her. Perhaps it’s their plan.” The metal in the steering wheel groaned in protest as he tightened his grip. “I
