Chapter 113
Aurelia
That cold dread in my stomach only grows into something colossal as I helplessly float away from the exit to the outside world. Suddenly, I am utterly alone, and the silence is deafening.
I had been alone at the beginning of all of this. My family had abandoned me to a life of silence and isolation. But I hadn’t really been alone. Ghoul had been there the entire time.
I close my eyes against the dark, summoning his face. And from so very far away, his voice, nothing but a soft hiss from amongst the shadows, comes to me. “What’s that in your necklace, snakelet?”
My eyes fly open. Xander’s necklace gleams gold against the skin of my chest. I reach for the pendant, and turning it over, find a tiny clasp I hadn’t seen before.
I suck in a breath as I flick it open. Inside gleams something wholly unexpected: a coiled hair, glowing an ethereal silver that could only come from one mythical shifter.
Just one.