Extraits

“Let’s get out of here,” she said, and grabbed me by the arm and dragged me after her.

Once we were on the front steps, she said, “Leo’s fine. Shaken up, of course, but he’s okay. Apparently he couldn’t reason with Melmoth, and once your spell wore off he legged it. Leo went after him but he’d disappeared into the village by then. He walked around all night looking for him, but he ran into a couple of venators and they told him… they told him they’d found the body. Then they took him in for questioning.”

“They what?” I said, my heart somersaulting. “They can’t think Leo killed him!”

“I don’t know what they think. But it’s bad for us, too.”

“Why?”

Claudia took a deep breath. “Don’t ask me how, but they know we were there last night, too. Me and you. They want to question us.”