Elara POV
Silence followed her words and hung heavy in the cell. Suspicion twisted in my stomach. I’d been burned when I trusted Orion and gave him the benefit of the doubt. I wasn’t going to make that same mistake again. Besides, Claire was guilty. She fully admitted to her crimes. A part of me wanted to rip out her throat—avenge my mom and all the hybrids she’d killed.
But I wouldn’t. Not yet.
Another part of me knew she was right. 5th Circle was a completely different monster from Eclipse. We needed all the information we could get in order to see this through and come out the other side alive.
On a more personal note, she was my stalker. My deranged guardian angel who’d looked out for me and Orion from the beginning. I couldn’t imagine what she’d gone through to keep that up for so
