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She didn’t care about anything now except for saving Lozen.
“I want your master,” she said. “Ulrich. Or isn’t it Ansel now? When I met him he was Ellis. I can’t keep up.”
“What do you want with Ansel? You’re nothing to him.”
“You stupid girl,” Ysidra said, laughing and letting her lips curl up into a horrible grin. “I want what everyone wants from Ansel.Money.”
“Money?” Saber almost snorted.
This was all about money? The thought seemed absurd.
“I wonder,” Ysisdra mused, “what you’re worth to him? There was a time when I thought Ulrich had no humanity left in him at all. I’ve seen him do terrible,wonderfulthings. Then he warned us not to touchyou, and I knew there was something about you he wanted just for himself. Why do you think I told Derek to leave you alone? We told youexactlyhow to seduce him, and how do you thank us?”
Saber felt cold all over.
“Youusedme to get to him,” Saber said, feeling so stupid, so naive.
“Saber!”
It was Lozen who spoke.
“We’re going to be ok, Lozen,” Saber assured her, though of course she wasn’t sure that was true.
Ysidra laughed at her pathetic reassurances.
And it was pathetic. Ansel, she realized, might not even come. He had warned her not to get involved with Ysidra, had warned her that he would never love her like a normal human man might.
“What if he doesn’t—”
“He’s coming,” Ysidra said. “I canfeelit. Take your friend’s place beside me.”
“No,” Lozen pleaded. “Ansel is coming. You got what you wanted. Just let us go.”
Saber shook her head and went to Ysidra.
“Go,” she said to Lozen, who shuffled a few steps out of Ysidra’s reach.
Then, they all froze.
Ansel emerged from the darkness of the other hall, the one Saber and Sophie had walked through. He was shirtless, his hair uncombed and falling loose into his face, and rumbling with a horrible warning that made the whole building shudder. It unsettled Saber to the tips of her toes, and Lozen looked at her with pure terror.
Saber had never seen him looking anything but perfectly groomed and put together, and she realized he’d come prepared for combat, forwar.
“Ysidra,” Ansel growled. “Let the girls go. This is beneath you.”
Ysidra laughed. “Ansel, you should know better than to order me around by now. It doesn’twork.”
“What do you want?”
Ansel glanced at Saber for the briefest moment. His fangs were out, and his eyes were bright, glowing, not like embers, like a burning fire.
He wanted to kill.
“Elise,” Ysidra said. “Kill Saber.”
Elise did not hesitate. As Lozen and Saber both screamed, she lifted an until-then-concealed knife, a wicked looking hunting tool, and launched herself at Saber. Her small, athletic body moved so quickly that Saber hardly had time to react. She turned toward Elise to fight, but mostly tried to cover her face with her hands.
Ysidra had known what she was doing.
