Chapter 111

Ronan’s POV

Soren and Elara left the refuge the next morning with copies of the codex. Mara stayed to catalog the pages her mother had marked, and I told her I would ride to Black Hollow to compare the relay records with the council’s archive. That was true. It wasn't the reason I went.

She stood beside the door as I fastened my coat. A loose strand of hair lay against her throat, and I had to stop myself from reaching for it. The three steps between us had grown familiar, but she could tell when my attention drifted elsewhere.

“Did Soren ask you to come?” she said.

“No. There are records he hasn’t seen.”

“Bring me anything Elara annotated.”

“I will.”

I could have said that I wanted to speak to the one man who knew how to burn the Bridge