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“So what happens now?”
“I don’t know. I really don’t,” he admits, sounding exhausted. “Some are saying your time as their captive warped you and that they used magic to make you betray us.”
“I don’t care what they say, only that you know the truth,” I reply. “I will face the punishment.”
Nodding, he stands. “I will speak to the others. They will push for a trial in hopes we can explain.” Turning, he clenches his fists. “I hope you’re right, Quinn. I really do. I envy you for being able to trust and hope in this world after what you have seen. I just hope it’s not your downfall like it was your father’s.”
“What does that mean?” I ask as I stand.
“He had hope too, hope we could live peacefully with the hunters, and look how it ended for him,” he murmurs, glancingat me. “You are your fathers’ daughter, both his and mine, too strong and kind for your own good.”
“I don’t fear anything but losing you and Mum,” I say. “It’s okay, Jang. I will face this with the dignity bestowed upon me by being your daughter.”
He rushes to me, kissing my head, and I feel his tears drip to my skin. “Foolish,” he croaks before storming away.
I heard the pain and love in that one word.
My heart breaks along with his.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
“So what now?” I mutter. “We are saving the wolves, but how exactly do we do that?”
“We need to get the hunters away from the area by giving them something worse to hunt,” Lucien murmurs. “We need to change their direction and fast.”
I huff. “They won’t like it. Wolves are at the top of their list.”
“Not the top,” Jai murmurs, eyeing us. “Remember when we snuck into their restricted library?—”
“You snuck in,” I interject. “We came to stop you from getting killed.”
“Semantics.” He grins, and it surprises me. Jai has always carried pain around like a weighted blanket. It made him raw and crazed. I’m not saying he’s not a little crazy now, because he definitely still is, but it seems he’s finally accepted who he is. It’s nice to see him even a little happy.
He came back for us, and that tells me all I need to know.
Jai is our brother through and through, and we will follow him until the end.
“But my point is, remember that list we found? Well, wolves weren’t at the top.”
Oh yeah, still crazy. His smile is slightly chilling. “You can’t be serious.”
“Deadly.” His eyes twinkle.
“Care to fill me in?” Lucien asks. “I was on door duty, so I didn’t see the list.”
“There was only one word above the wolves—the biggest monsters around. Both monsters and hunters hate and kill them,” I mutter. “When they can catch them, they are crazy, unpredictable, and the deadliest creature to ever walk the earth—necromancers.”
“And I happen to know there has been blood magic around here, not to mention the graves,” Jai adds.
“You think it’s a necromancer?” I mutter. “Impossible. They are all dead.”
“Don’t be foolish. You can’t kill dark magic. It’s a necromancer. I know it. If we turn them onto that, then they will forget about the wolves for now.”
“It might buy us time, but eventually, they will come back,” Lucien mutters.
“Which will give us time to either pretend to kill the entire pack or say they moved so we hunt them elsewhere.” Jai nods.
“Fine, so how do we convince them of the necromancer?” I shudder at the name. They are nothing but dark magic, and they crave pain and death. They are darkness incarnate, a perversion created by bringing a dead white witch back to life, or so I’ve read.
