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I hoped to God that she’d just done us all a favor and drowned in the lake or gotten shole by a giant anaconda Or perhaps the spider veno that this was just an attention-seeking stunt It wouldn’t have surprisedto draw a reaction from Caleb

Well, even if that is the case, I don’t care anymore Because Caleb is mine

Chapter 13: Annora

As I’d floated in the lake, trying to wash out the green filth that was still plaguing the roots of my hair even after its sixth scrub, I’d sworn that I was done with this gaer

It was ti, when I woke up alone to find my nose swollen from the spider bite, and then cli in each other’s arms across the lake, I knew I couldn’t wait another day to do it

My first atte her off had failed It was just as well, I supposed Caleb had seemed to suspect that it was me This time I needed to berid of her, if Caleb blaain For hiive me I’d hoped that Rose was just a distraction, to take his mind off me Now I feared that she had come to mean more to him than that The situation had to be handled delicately

I was sure that, with tiain I just needed the chance to remind him who I was and why he’d fallen in love with me to start with

But to do that, I had to eliht be true that I had lost Caleb’s heart, but I would stop at nothing to reclai in le, tohere I thought the noise had eh without shoes I didn’t want to waste ti to treat my nose

Thesuspicion what this island ht be And if my suspicions were correct, I was very, very lucky that we ended up on this island Of all the places we could have washed ashore, this couldn’t have been a eot confirh , I felt a sense of euphoria I hadn’t felt since first finding Caleb again in my heart that day I’d woken up as myself on Lilith’s island

As I stood in theinto an old stone well, I couldn’t keep the smile from my face as a plan formulated infor Rose than even handing her over to the black witches They only want her blood, after all…

Chapter 14: Aiden

The moment Kyle and Anna discovered the bloodied bedsheets of their neighbors, Caroline and Thomas, the island was in an uproar Kyle and Anna were both a bag of nerves as they ca to inforh such loss and trouble recently, and for this to happen just next door shook them both deeply Kyle and Anna took Caroline and Thoe number of vampires and humans on the island were still convinced that the olves--in particular, Micah--were responsible for Rose’s kidnapping Many had held a grudge against the olves ever since

Noith the bloody mess that Caroline and Thoaping wound All the doubt resurfaced again tenfold

Derek and Sofia were forced to call aof vampires, humans, and noolves alike--except for Eli, who for soued for hours I reu responsible for this The whole ti at Sofia I couldn’t have felt hter and son-in-law at the sa, their son was still having a tough ti as a vae that was threatening to overrun the island with ani there, we had to be aware primarily of Mona--we knew the olves were her family, and for that reason Derek and Sofia simply could not side with those opposed to the olves, even if they were responsible for this The olves had to stay on the island, be they innocent or guilty I saw it in led with this conundrum She and Derek were supposed to be co only for the truth for the protection of the humans on the island, yet at the same time they had to maintain a partiality toward the olves Even if it was unjust

No, the et to the truth It was intended to reach balance and co to appease opponents on both sides of the issue Because if the culprit was found to be a olf, the situation would become eventheir kingdom this way, and yet now, dependent on Mona as ere, they had no choice I could see Derek close to losing his te to pause to reel hiu ca until tomorroas exhausted I was relieved for Derek and Sofia They had dark shadows under their eyes--far too dark even for vampires--and worry lined their faces Now that the torturouswas over for the day, they had to return to more worries Worries much closer to home