Tick tock.
The beat of my heart.
Blood to rule the might.
Ethan’s blood.
Freezing water sluiced over my head. I blinked, shaking like a wet dog, and jerked my head out from under the bathtub tap, sputtering.
Ro held himself in check, his mouth a flat line. “You said Lilith wasn’t controlling you.”
“She’s not.”
“I was calling you for twenty minutes. Smacking your cheek. Pinching you. You didn’t react. And that was after your eyes had gone cloudy and you stiffened up like a board. We barely got out of the room in time.” A muscle jumped in the hard set of his jaw.
I sank down against the white floor tiles, my back against the tub. Water ran from my hair down under the neck of my shirt. “Snowflake, I’m fine. I promise you she’s not awake.”
“You might not know. And if I’m talking to Li
