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I looked back up at Kuru and nodded my head. "Do it."
"Noooo!" he screamed.
Lux began lighting more candles nestled in the trees, while Harmony pulled a vial from the pocket in her dress. She sprinkled the ground around us, whispering foreign words I didn’t understand.
“First, de sacrifice.” Kuru picked up the knife, handing it to me by the hilt, and the cup. "I need his blood. Only a few drops."
I squatted before Saul and, with the men holding him down, the Sheriff jerked Saul’s wrist towards me.
I sliced into skin.
A strange, electric sensation buzzed through my fingers and up my arms as I collected Saul’s blood. I realized I was smiling as I returned the cup and knife to Kuru.
With the knife, she cut the flower into small pieces, and sprinkled them into the cup, mixing it with the blood.
Headlights filled the space and I turned, exhilarated at the sight of Rook's SUV. He launched from it, running the short path towards me. His voice a low but panicked growl, "Summer. What's going on here?"
Something lit up inside me, and I ran to meet him, throwing my arms around him.
All night, I’d been filled with the certainty of what I was doing.
It was a strange sort of power, to hold Saul's life in my hands.
And yet, it wasn't until I saw Rook that I realized how scared I was at the same time.
Not of Saul or even my own desire for revenge, but of the absolute calm with which I was going to do it.
I felt nothing.
No guilt.
Just—a certainty of absolution.
I wanted Saul dead, revenge for what he'd done to both me and my mom, for the brand he'd forced Rook to take.
But now, with Rook here, I wasn't scared anymore.
He was my strength and my hope.
With him, I could do anything.
CHAPTER 49
Rook
After Summer was taken—spending three days without her—, and realizing that she hadn’t told them my last name, that she hadn’t…
That she would rather die, or live her life in servitude, than to betray me, I’d been shocked. Speechless. Felt like a gaping hole had opened up in my soul. Replaced with something strange.
Was this new thing, trust? Love?
Nothing in my world was real anymore.
For the first time in my life, I'd realized that I could be fucking happy.
Falling asleep with her in my arms had been the best moment in my life, and I hadn’t needed anything else.
I loved this woman, and never wanted to leave her side.
