Riley's POV

“But I was more than a beast to her until late,” he stopped then glanced up briefly at me. “That’s why I’m going to use you Aemoria. I will use you to summon her soul. Carian is still in this world I can feel it. She’s not rested because I kept it that way. I refuse to unclench from her till I know the reason she played her death.”

I stood there frozen, my mouth open but nothing coming out. My brain felt like it had short-circuited. 

He was going to use me. Like I was some kind of tool or spell ingredient to bring back his dead...