Chapter 74

Caelan’s POV

9 Days Before the Execution.

Kira hadn’t stopped crying since we left her.

Valerie.

Even hearing her name made something inside me twist with a mixture of rage and anger 

“I know you’re angry,” Kira pleaded, grabbing my arm as we rounded the hallway toward the west wing. “But please, Caelan, listen to me. I don't think she abandoned us. She nearly lost it, and—”

“I don’t want to hear about her!” I snapped, wrenching my arm free. The sharpness in my voice made Kira flinch. “Have you forgotten what could’ve happened to us? What did happen because of her stupid mistake?”

She opened her mouth, but I didn’t let her speak. “We trusted her. I trusted her. And in the blink of an eye, we were hunted like dogs, K