Zayn
"Greg, what if this is what she meant? That we’ll pay a price for everything,” Mitchel whispered, her voice almost drowned out by the pounding silence around us.
We were all trying to think, to come up with something to find Aila. But Mitchel’s words felt like knives in the already fraying thread of my sanity.
I wasn’t even in good terms with my father, but desperation made you do stupid things. So yeah, I reached out. Called in favors. Begged, even. Anything to get help. To find Aila.
But what the hell did she mean by price?
“That if we can’t protect her... the curse will awaken. Revenge,” she added, and her voice cracked at the end, like she was choking on regret.
I froze.
I knew Aila was cursed. They told me that much. I knew Greg and Mitchel had done something reckless just
