Chapter 185

• LIORA
• A laugh slipped out of me before I could stop it, and I realized that telling her this wasn't as hard as I had expected. The memories were heavy, but her presence made them lighter, somehow.
• "I won't go into every detail, but by the time I was a teenager, I'd had enough. Around twelve or thirteen, I ran away from my pack and started wandering alone. I ended up meeting Mordane about a year later. He was the first vampire I ever met."