ZEPHYRINE's POV.
I stood frozen, my mind reeling in shock.
"Cursed!" someone shouted, and the word was taken up by others, echoing through the clearing. "She's cursed, she's cursed, she's cursed!
I felt like I'd gotten the wind sucked out of me, that he had reached in and sucked everything from my insides out. The words cut deep, and a part of me couldn't help but wonder one question: Was it me? Am I cursed to have people around me die under these circumstances that are so mysterious?
“She killed Cormac! She doesn’t deserve our alpha.”
And then came the mention of Cormac's name, another wave of pain with the utterance of it, for that wound was raw and their words salt in it.
The crowd began to chant, a rising cry to make Elwes check again: "Check again! Check again!" they were callin
