Blood… so much blood…
Roxane woke sweating from her nightmare, hugging herself unconsciously, twisting and turning in panic as if trying to escape something. Her eyes were squeezed shut; she tried to open them but could not. "No… don't come near me…"
Elara stood outside the iron cell, staring at the bright red Saphora Mother Tree seed between her fingers. In truth, ever since Austin told her Roxane could gestate the seeds, she had had a plan to draw the entire Blood Pact out into the open—a plan that would also help Brett Hall break free from Fisher.
But she had not been able to cross her own moral line. She had thought the plan went against her principles. Yet Roxane's scheme to lead the wolves into the mountains had slapped her awake.
“Ah!”
With a terrified scream, Roxane suddenly o
