Chapter 77. Battle for the Forest

Cassian POV

I can feel the tremors in Lyra’s body as we spot the incoming attack. The wolves are too far away to determine whether they’re zombie warriors again, but I pray to the Goddess that they aren’t.

I don’t want Lyra to have to use the amulet again, not so soon, not with our baby growing inside her.

I’d rather rip Assanan’s warriors to shreds on our own, but I know we won’t be able to do that without help from the amulet. Wolves shrouded in dark magic will not stop until all of us are destroyed or until that magic is lifted, whichever comes first.

“Their eyes,” Lyra says, her own eyes widening in horror.

She sees it before I do—these wolves are under the curse.

Lyra reaches her hand up to grasp the large moonstone of the amulet, but I set my own