Rose’s POV

My heartbeat continued to pound in my ears, my body convulsing with the scope of it all, with all that I had just learned. Victor talked steadily, though I could sense a desperation in it, a tension that I could not shake. He gazed at me with a pleading expression, as though he wished to speak, wished to say something, just did not know how.

"Rose," I whispered, breaking into the silence that enveloped us. "There is something more that I haven't told you. And I have to because ...