ELLA

“It’ll send shivers down the spine of the members of the council and everyone who looks up to both of you,” I added after a minute of silence.

I could tell that he was thinking about what I had said, and I realized that until this point, I hadn’t given it much thought either. With everything I know now, you’d think I’d have learned to see things beyond surface level, but I was starting to realize that I needed to make conscious effort to read between the lines.

Maybe Ava was right, maybe this is all there is to my existence; the consistent cycle of having the Blackthorns in...