Elara'S POV
Xavier stroked his thumb across his bottom lip.
“Do you think this stalker is one of the hunters?”
“I don’t know. Why warn me that the hunters are coming if he’s a hunter himself?” I asked.
“You’re right, that makes no sense.” Xavier swept a hand over his dreads. “But your stalker has inside information on those who want you dead.”
Lysander said, “A third-party spy or assassin that’s gone soft on Elara?”
I shook my head. “Why kill my mother, admit to it, then spend the next almost eight years protecting me? I don’t get it. I don’t even know why these people are after us.”
“Have you tried to communicate with them?” Kaelen asked.
“Yeah. Once or twice.” I let out a humorless laugh. “The first time resulted in a bullet to my shoulder. The second opened my stomach and I alm
