Violetta
"Help him."
With every breath, Ferrara seemed to grow weaker under my touch. The bullet was lodged in his chest. If he remained human for much longer, it would be fatal.
There was only reason I could think of that the maiden would be here was if she was here to betray us all. Everyone else around us had.
But she was my friend, and if there was even the slightest chance that I was wrong, I had to cling to it. "Please help him. The spell is already latched on to him. I can't absorb it."
"You can," she said as she crouched down and examined him. "You are bonded with him.
You can absorb the spell and turn it to dust."
"I don't know how to do that. He's going to die!"
"Violetta, the power you have is not something that you do. It's simply who you are. Release the panic, focus o
