TRIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
~TATE'S POV~
The hour Vida had given me felt like both an eternity and a heartbeat. She'd pushed me harder than ever before, forcing me to channel magic until my nose bled and my hands shook. But when the time came, I stood at the Packhouse entrance with Mathias and Daxon flanking me, ready to face Heriberto.
Except he never came.
At the fifty-nine-minute mark, his presence vanished from the borders. The dark magic signatures Vida had sensed simply disappeared, like smoke in the wind. The Hunters retreated. And Heriberto left nothing behind except a burned message on the ground outside the property line.
"Another time, little witch. When you're alone."
That was two days ago. Two days of lockdown, of constant patrols, of sleeping with one eye open. Two days of Vida
