Chapter Twenty
I sit with the phone at my ear and I do not speak for a long time.
Eli waits.
That is the first thing I notice about him. He called me at four in the morning after twenty years of searching and he is waiting. No pressure. No urgency layered over the careful. Just a man who has been patient for two decades and understands that one more minute is nothing.
"How did you find me," I say finally.
"Your grandmother," he says. "Nora. She contacted me three days ago. She said you were at Blackmoon and that the time had come."
Three days ago Nora was being held at a hunting lodge by Aldric's wolves. Three days ago she was a captive.
And she still found a way to make this call happen.
"What do you want," I say.
"Nothing," he says. Simply. "I want nothing from you. I want you t
