Isabella

My heart fell when I heard about the Paganis. I remembered that all their children were older than me, but the older couple was nice to me. I looked for them when the manhunt started, and their butler, Jones, hid me and then smuggled me into the lower city.

I reached up to my face when I felt tears flowing down my eyes to my chin.

"Should I stop?" Damon asked me with concern on his face. I shook my head. "No. I need to hear this," I said as I wiped my eyes furiously.

"When Rodrigo took power, he purged Marcel's sympathizers until the point when hearing Marcel's...