Chapter Twenty: Tai
‘Tai,’ sighed Phélan. He was lurking somewhere behind me, for some reason. If he thought he was out of range of my songs there, he was an i***t.
‘Yes?’ I snapped.
‘Don’t gloat. An efficient hunter dispatches the prey quickly.’
I stared at Silise. Did I want to dispatch her?
I did. I really did. This hideous excuse for a friend hadn’t bothered to tell us she’d survived Ravensbrück, instead choosing to spend eighty years nursing a pathetic grudge followed by some f****d up revenge mission? She thought this poisonous scheme was deserved, did she?
She and Brianne had hurt Mea. They’d caused the death of Narasel. And, most unforgiveably, they’d enslaved Fionn.
And they’d got to her. I knew that look on Fionn’s face. They’d broken her damned spirit, first by taking her
