DESDEMONA

I spent the entire morning trying to convince myself that going to Lord Kieran was a terrible idea. Eddie's warning kept replaying in my head, especially the way her voice had changed when she told me not to believe the first thing Muna told me.

There had been something behind those words, something she had been too afraid to explain, and the more I thought about it, the more impossible it became for me to simply ignore it. I had already learned too much about Alaric to turn back now.

His mother was a mystery, his childhood was a wound no one wanted to touch, and now there was...