Elara POV
“And I was put to the test.” Claire gazed upward for a moment. When her eyes resettled on me, they held an edge of steel. “Forrest was given the task of overseeing my initiation into 5th Circle that night. We went to your house. I shooed Orion away to play outside.
He was so young and innocent in all of this. Then I watched Forrest interrogate your mother. You know how he likes to do that with his knife. Once she’d told him everything, I was tasked with brewing up the poison that killed her. I did, and I gave it to her. From that moment on, I was a member of 5th Circle.”
My fists clenched. Claire had murdered my mom? I kept my expression as blank as possible while trying to process that information.
Memories of that time rose in full force, almost vividly. Orion had called m
