“I can’t ask that of you,” her voice broke along with her heart. She never expected her brother to come back to her. The worst thing he could do to her, she thought, was leave, but when she realized he left her for the people who killed everyone they loved, it shattered her heart.
“Try us!” Aiden had shifted and stood behind her, his face still stubbornly angry, “who took you? Or did you come here on your own?”
“My brother,” she curves her bleeding hand around the pendant in her hand. She couldn’t even feel the pain anymore. Not with her entire body aching like that.
“You said that he died. Why would you lie about that?”
“I didn’t lie,” she shook her head, “He left me. I woke up one day in that stupid cave we lived in and he was just gone. I knew he wasn’t happy, but still, he could ha
