*Jack*

“Hurry please,” Cassandra sobbed.

She grabbed my wrist and led me further into the forest. A sense of unease had settled over me the moment we’d passed into the tree line. We weren’t going towards the clearing where Blaise and his rogues had met last night, but it still put me on edge that she was dragging me so far from the festival grounds.

“What was Christy doing out here?” I asked.

Christy was Cassandra’s younger sister. ...