Kiana
They almost killed Finn at the coven, but Claudine had ordered him taken alive. Apparently, she wanted the thrill of killing her son herself.
Chained to the wall, I was helpless as Claudine wiped Finn’s blood from her hands. If she suspected that I’d just been speaking to Troy, she didn’t let on. At least it was nice to see him again before I cracked the mountain open and bled for Claudine’s obsession with world domination.
“You’ve destroyed him, you know,” Claudine muttered in a fury. “He was to be my heir, and now he defies his own mother and bleeds for you.”
“Maybe if you had actually mothered him instead of sending him as a child to hunt down two adults and his friend, he’d still care for you.”
Her hand whipped across my face, and my teeth gashed together. Painfully, I spit
