Chapter 152

Viona's POV

Two months

Two months of uneasy silence had passed.

For a time, we breathed easier. Reports of witches clashing with humans, of vampires tearing each other apart, had filled our nights with a strange, grim relief. The enemy was distracted, devouring themselves instead of pressing against our borders.

But relief never lasted long in a world of blood and shadow.

The first whispers arrived with our spies-shadows slipping through enemy lines, ears sharp to secrets not ...