Chapter 99
- VALERIE
- Long after, when Xavier had taken me back to his study, I sat wrapped in a blanket with a cup of hot tea. Despite my warmth, I could not stop shivering.
- I had killed someone. Hadn’t I? I’d stabbed him and heard his groans of pain. I had felt his hand reach out and grab my ankle, and I had kicked him fiercely and ran with Lucia in tow. I had smelled his blood—felt it on my face. I had killed him.