Kael's POV But it’s her eyes that destroy me. Those bright green eyes that once sparkled with life and hope are now glassy and unfocused, the light in them fading like dying embers. One eye is blackened and nearly swollen shut. She is staring at nothing, seeing nothing, and I can feel through our pulsing connection that she’s slipping away from me. In the corner, so still that it makes my chest tighten, lies Luna. Her small, black body is contorted in a horrible way, and I sense immediately that she’s barely clinging to life. Two large men stand over Elara. One holds shackles that gleam like silver in the lamplight. The other is wiping blood from his knuckles. Standing behind them is a man who can only be Andrew Crew. Next to him is another man, older, wearing expensive clothes and too

