FAYE
I didn’t understand the look on Helen’s face.
One second, she looked confused.
The next...
She looked horrified.
“Unless…” she whispered.
Then...
“No way,” she added.
The words came out sharper than anything she had said since the ritual began.
Her eyes lifted immediately toward Alexander and me.
For the first time since this entire thing started, Helen actually looked shaken.
Alexander frowned instantly.
“What?”
But Helen barely seemed to hear him.
Her attention had already shifted somewhere else entirely.
“Where’s the young man?” she asked quickly. “Roman.”
Both Alexander and I looked at each other.
Roman?
My brows pulled together in confusion.
Why was she suddenly asking about Roman?
She barely even knew him.
The only interaction they had shared was yesterday.
