[Lucien]
To my horror, Victor and I reached the cemetery half an hour later than planned. Even worse, there was absolutely no sign of Violet, Celeste, Ryder, or anyone. No footprints, no dropped items, no residual scent—not even the faintest trace that they'd ever been there.
So maybe they'd never shown up in the first place. And that thought alone was troubling.
I'd already been told Violet was the gate to the Nether. That meant I had to get her as far from here as fast as possible. If something went wrong...
"Where the hell are they?!" I rasped. My voice echoing through the land of rotting stone crypts and dead graves. I knew that if she had a choice in the matter, Violet wouldn't have missed our appointment even if I was a full hour late—especially not when Raye's life hung in the
