Morgana circled us like prey. Her black dress trailed through the blood-soaked dirt. The bones around us hummed with magic so dark it made my wolf whimper.
“You came,” she said. “How predictable.”
“You knew we would,” Kade said. His voice was steady but I felt his fear through the bond.
“Of course. I saw it months ago. The moment Thomas triggered your curse. The moment Aria saved you from bleeding out in the woods.” She stopped in front of me. “You are bound by fate. By blood. By a love so desperate it rewrote reality itself.”
“You helped Thomas,” I said. “You gave him the binding chain. Told him how to trigger the curse.”
“I did.”
“Why?”
“Because the Council paid me well. And because I wanted to see what would happen when two cursed souls collided.” She smiled. “You did not disappo
