~ CAIN ~

West mentioned Catherine’s involvement in the faction, but I never had a reason to really consider the implications—until now.

“Why didn’t they wait to train you? Why did they take such an enormous risk?”

“They thought I was like everyone else,” she replies quietly. “When the Blackthorn found me, I had recently escaped the hands of the Crimson Court. They had taken me and Rose a few years before and promised us immortality if we ...