I grasped my bleeding abdomen and stumbled back a few feet, the poison seizing control of my body. My legs trembled, then suddenly gave out completely, and I hit the ground on my knees with a thud. Desperately, I tried to catch myself with my arms, but I couldn’t move them either, so I continued to fall face-first against the ground. “Take him to the prison,” Sina’s father ordered a guard. “Get as much information out of him as you can. They don’t leave anyone’s sight. There has to be more of them around here. They aren’t stupid enough to come alone.” father“Maybe we are,” I growled through my canines, glaring into the dirt because I couldn’t move even my head a couple of inches to the side. My entire body was stiff and numb, to the point where I couldn’t feel a thing. But if Sina’s pot

