Chapter One
6 Months Before The City Of Blood Was Founded
I pace back and forth, trying to rein in the anger threatening to explode from me. "How could they?" I demand.
Dimitri leans back in his chair, no doubt unimpressed by my anger over this. "It's what they do, Reese. You know that."
"And why aren't we doing anything about it?" I demand.
"We are." He sits forward, his hard gaze on me, as if he's expecting me to do something extreme.
I suppose he's right about that. I am going to do something extreme. But only because it has to be done.
"And how many more of our people are going to die before you realise you're not doing enough?" I try to breathe slowly, trying not to let him get to me.
"I don't want any of our people to die," Dimitri says. "But if it was as simple as killing th
