Chapter 63

I didn't even notice that the unknown man was again bending down next to me, even when a strong light was thrown against my face and his head appeared. Because I was looking at Mikaela's legs in the other window, seeing when she suddenly softened and how the men pulled her up in order to carry her, still making debauched and unflatterous comments for a woman to have to listen. That scared me so much that everything else became very small and unimportant. I knew how the basics of the Brotherhood worked. Those men had no scruples. They could easily kill, steal, rape, and would not be afraid to settle accounts with other people later. That's why it took me a while to understand that the man still had one more message to give me, and when he spoke, it took me even longer to decipher the lines.

"A man without fear is capable of anything, miss. That's why we want to make sure that fear won't exist for someone like you. This is a message from Aslan, our new leader: when you have to choose,