Tabitha Why did I have a feeling that whatever solution Ezra has for us tonight would certainly not be a pleasing one? If it were…he wouldn’t have asked that Sloane shouldn’t be in the picture tonight. A sigh inadvertently breathed out of my mouth lazily, coating the mirror in my bathroom with a fog that soon reduced to nothing. I should have known better not to enter a cave whispering my name endlessly in my ear. My life wouldn’t have drowned in the darkest depths of despair. Mathias wouldn’t have marked me, my fate wouldn’t be tied to his, and at the very least…I wouldn’t have to find out the hard way that he’s cursed. What kind of curse does he bear? What are the voices he hears? What was he doing inside that cave in the first place? I could go on an endless spree entertaining several

