WENDY’S POV
In that moment, I started to have a feeling of dread. I knew I was in way over my head. I had made a terrible mistake aligning myself with Ermac. I was desperate—desperation makes you blind, makes you foolish. I’d thought he was a solution, a means to an end. But the man was far more dangerous than I’d ever imagined. He wasn’t just a sorcerer. He was power incarnate, merciless and untouchable.
How could I ever manipulate him? How could I ever free myself from him?
I thought seducing him was the key but it’s more than that. How can you outsmart someone who can practically read your thoughts? Someone who’s in tune with his spirituality? Someone who nature itself fears?
Shit. He’s probably reading my thoughts right now. I have to be careful about what I think around him.
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