PAULINE
"No." I set the moisturizer down. My reflection looked back at me with something sharp in the eyes now. "If Aldric is going to perish now, we can forget about her. She will not be a risk. It is not like she knows much anyway. We can coexist."
"She has been living without any pills." Valentine's voice lost the lightness entirely. He was serious now. Focused in that way that made him dangerous. "And with the way her blood reacted when I tried to touch its matter, she is definitely awakened. She is different. I can feel it."
I closed my eyes.
"Valentine."
"I did my research. Even her mother, although she lived a decently long life, used her gifts clearly a bit too much and the side effects of it... it killed her. I have to have her, Pauline."
"Skollrend is a giant pack that will burn the world if its Luna is touched." I opened my eyes and stared at my reflection. "I will be caught in the crossfire. Again."
