lle

flesh and wolfsbane h

ng shade of dusky purple. The skin around the puncture blackened at

hat blade for Adell. For my daughte

fore I'd even m

slender, gold-plated acupuncture needles, conceal

silver is racing toward his heart meridians! I

buckles of his blo

head sna

n my hand, and instinct took over. The sight of a knife anywhe

WAY FRO

hing out with his

ing me flying backwards. My back slammed into

from my grasp and c

MMY

ndoning Cory's side to race to me, throwin

ribs. "He TOOK that blade for my daughter! He's bleeding out

econd, something like regret crossed his f

ep aside?" he snarled, but his voice had

s kingdom who knows how to pull silver poison out of a meridian. Your physician

he war in his eyes

t you're playing," he mutt

of it left me mome

certainty because letting them go meant admitting he'd been wrong abo

my nails into my palms until they dr

ed. He actua

shouting orders wit

to the East Keep IMMEDIATELY! Summo

lifted the unconscious Beta onto a st

lazed eyes sought mine out. His bloodied lips parted as though he

her, but paused in the shattered doorw

t the two girls clinging to my arms, at the needles lying useless

harden

ly. "Barricade this door from the OUTSIDE. If she so much a

mmed shut. The metallic rattling of thick chains

r, squeezing my eyes shut as I fought to

blood-speckled sleeve to gently wipe the cold sweat fr

looked down into her

of a silver blade to shield my ch

of Diego's pig-headed blindnes

idian poisoning from liquid silver. They'd plaster him with useless poultic

pushing myself to my feet. "Mom