EMBER’S POV

“But if I’d—”

“If you’d WHAT? Figured out on the spot how to control a power that nobody alive seems to understand? Come on, Ember. You shot a man. You fought trained soldiers. You gave Maurice and me a plan that almost worked. You did everything a human being could do in that situation and then some. The fact that you ALSO have a supernatural wolf inside you that operates on its own schedule doesn’t make the things you DID count for less.”

I lower my hands from my eyes and look at her.

“We need help,” I say. “Someone who understands what Sapphire is and how she...