Chapter 71

Declan:

“What do you want to talk about?” he asked.

She climbed knees first onto the bed, folding her legs under her, pushing unruly hair back from her face. “I don’t know…tell me about Rowan. How much did he know about what Cyrus had done to my family?”

Declan had expected that she would ask the question sooner or later. He got up and retrieved a brush from the dresser. Sitting behind her, he put a leg on either side and started brushing her hair. “He was the one who found you, and convinced Cyrus that having an elemental on our side would be a good idea.”

“How? Why?”

“It’s simple really. You know why Rowan wanted an elemental…but he told Cyrus that an elemental could wipe out the human’s food supply, while at the same time maintaining it for the vampires, which would make the humans reliant on the vampires. The ones who control the food control the world after all. There’s nothing more dangerous than a starving human. Rowan