Chapter 42
The blood on Tessie's dress told the story as Moses' maroon coat billowed around her and dawn's light spilled over the city. Purple with frostbite, she shivered deep into her bones. She'd let the Angel go, Finn remained in his dark cell and Ruby, she prayed was still holding onto life. How could she look Kyran in the eye and tell him what his father asked of him? Why would he sacrifice himself to save a man he doesn't know? But what else could she do? What would Aileen do? Stage a breakout and storm the watch-house, axe in hand? Tessie slumped with it. She was not her mother and never would be.
Her hands still quivered at the memory of flinging her knife at Moses, and her trigger finger jolted at her empty shot into the air. She was returning with nothing.
Frostbitten and wre
