DESDEMONA

The moment I heard Alaric's voice outside the storage room, every thought in my head disappeared. Eddie's fingers tightened around my wrist, and for a few seconds neither of us moved.

The letter remained clutched in my hand, its edges trembling between my fingers. I could still see the words written across the parchment even in the darkness. I never betrayed him. The sentence had been written by the woman herself, and somehow that frightened me more than anything else I had discovered.

If Muna had truly betrayed Alaric, why would she have written those words? Why had someone gone to such lengths to erase her name from the...