"… pact of blood that bound our lives together for eternity…"
"... might not have lived to see the dawn…"
The phrases slammed into Maela like the hammer of a smith against an anvil, crushing her heart mercilessly between them as Ashlynn's words forced her to confront a cold, hard truth.
Ashlynn had been powerless when Owain Lothian turned on her. She'd barely survived by fumbling with her powers, and when that hadn't been enough, she'd been forced to bind herself to a vampire for eternity, just to preserve her own life.
"That, that must have been… horrible," Micheline said, looking at Ashlynn with wide eyes and speaking while Maela couldn't. "All alone, in the dark and the cold and…"
