Eve’s POV

“Tell me,” I said my voice shaking slightly as I spoke. “Did I bring the curse to Blackthorn?” I asked before the full break of dawn, it was the one question that had burned all night in my mind, the thought that the same curse we spent all the time seeking to end. I was responsible.

Kimani was like a ghost, he never slept so I wasn’t surprised when I heard his voice again. “The curse was never gone, it was here long before the war of Harttman and Blackthorn, but we ...