Natalia
“We need to send them away,” I finally said.
Damon’s face crumpled. “I know.”
The words felt like a knife twisting in my chest. We’d been dancing around this conversation all night, ever since we’d returned from the meeting with Andrei.
With the Moonshadow warriors arriving in the morning, it was too risky to keep the twins here. We’d both known it the moment Andrei had made his offer.
“Just until the warriors leave,” Damon said, perhaps more to himself than to me. “A few weeks, maybe a month at most.”
I swallowed hard, feeling a painful lump form in my throat. We’d almost sent them away once before, after Andrei had discovered I was alive. But then Andrei had backed off, and the threat had seemed less immediate. We’d decided to keep them close, to protect them ourselves.
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