Annie's POV:
Then I moved.
Not away from the platform—toward it.
Jasper's grip tightened on my arm. "Annie. What are you doing?"
"The test will find me before morning. Every woman in this square is going to stand before a moonstone, and mine will glow. I can let them drag me up there, or I can walk up and tell them everything." I looked at Elena, standing at the front of the platform in her pale dress. "She's hidden her secret long enough."
"Annie." Jasper's voice was rough. "If you walk up there, you die."
"Then I die saving Chloe. And I take her down with me."
He stared at me. Then he said, "Give me one minute."
"Why?"
"I can stop this without you dying." He looked past me at the platform, at his sister. "Give me one minute."
I gave him one minute.
Jasper's eyes went still. Th
