When the gates come into view, I stop and so does Silas before looking down at me.
“Keep going Elora, don’t make me hurt you. I don’t want to hurt you,” he says, the calmness leaving his voice and his normal angry demeanour slips back into place.
“Not until you promise not to hurt Abigail and her family,” I tell him. He growls and I see Dragus and Matitus stop, looking back at us nervously.
“They knew the consequences of helping you, Elora,” Silas says, letting go of my hand and gripping my arm just above my elbow.
“You heard me this morning, didn’t you?” I asked, looking at Matitus. “You told him and that’s why you let me out, isn’t it?”
Matitus’s silence confirms my assumption. I look up to see the sky is completely grey with clouds and the snow forming on the ground is becoming t
