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Farther and farther off the main routes they went, and we followed the whole time, led by my
instructions. Finally, I felt Victor's car come to a stop.
"They're outside a small cabin," I said. "They're taking her—”
"Why are you doing this? What's going on?”
Lissa. Cringing and scared. Her feelings had pulled me into her.
"Come, child," said Victor, moving into the cabin, unsteady on his cane. One of his guardians
held the door open. Another pushed Lissa along and settled her into a chair near a small table
inside. It was cold in here, especially in the pink dress. Victor sat across from her. When she
started to get up, a guardian gave her a warning look. "Do you think I'd seriously hurt you?”
"What did you do to Christian?" she cried, ignoring the question. "Is he dead?
"The Ozera boy? I didn't mean for that to happen. We didn't expect him to be there. We'd hoped
to catch you alone, to convince others you'd run away again. We'd made sure rumors already
circulated about that.”
We? I recalled how the stories had resurfaced this week…from Natalie.
"Now?" He sighed, spreading his hands wide in a helpless gesture. "I don't know. I doubt
anyone will connect it to us, even if they don't believe you ran away. Rose is the biggest
liability. We'd intended to…dispatch her, letting others think she'd run away as well. The
spectacle she created at your dance made that impossible, but I had another plan in place to
make sure she stays occupied for some time…probably until tomorrow. We will have to
contend with her later.”
He hadn't counted on Dimitri figuring out the spell. He'd figured we'd be too busy getting it on
all night.
"Why?" asked Lissa. "Why are you doing all this?”
His green eyes widened, reminding her of her father's.