The Journal’s Second Secret
The elevator went up in silence. The faint hum of its machines was the sound filling the small space.
Aria stood in the corner, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. She could still hear the creature’s voice. You’ve been here before.
Every moon…
…you walk to us.
She closed her eyes.
“No…”
she whispered to herself.
“I would’ve remembered.”
The thing she thought was true her whole life was starting to fall apart. Damien watched her from across the elevator. His wolf was restless. Not because of the Hall, but because of her.
She looked shaken in a way he had never seen before. She wasn’t afraid of monsters. She was afraid of herself.
For reasons he couldn’t explain that bothered him more than anything they’d found beneath the mountain.
The elevator d
