ALLISON.

"Look, you know that the fragment is the only thing that can save my cousin. You know how bad her curse is. You said you’d help me. So now I’m here, asking for it. Give me another task in exchange for that. If you want, I will track down those vampires who stole the Mollagona filed. I’d do it.”

River looked at me for a moment, his gaze unreadable. For a second, he didn’t speak, and I could feel the weight of his silence pressing down. The way he kept everything locked ...