Jessica pov.
“You know you’re really making this harder for yourself, right?” I said, folding my arms as I stood outside the iron cage. Paige sat inside, knees pulled to her chest, eyes dull and distant. We had tried keeping her in a normal room before, just like she once did to me with guards watching. But she’d nearly killed two of them when she tried to escape, using that cursed dark power again.
Now, the cage was the only option. Silver-lined bars, heavy chains at her ankles. She was dangerous, even like this.
Zane had gone with Ronald and Tyson to check the border, to make sure whatever had been spreading from the east wasn’t heading our way. We still had no clue what we were dealing with. The only thing we’d found at Jason’s tribe was a strange letter written in blood nailed to th
