~Lucas POV~
"What are we going to do?" I asked, the words escaping before I could weigh them it was not a question I liked to ask, but the silence pressing in around us demanded it.
Matteo only exhaled sharply, not answering his fists tightened and his pride would not allow him to admit he was as lost as I was.
Matteo voice out. "We need to rescue Ezra first."
Kate turned to him, her eyes flashing. "We can't! If we do, he'll demand to be part of the ritual and you know what that means."
Her lips pressed into a thin line as she avoided Matteo gaze.
"Why don't you want Ezra to be part of the ritual?" I asked her slowly, carefully, watching every twitch of her face.
"It's nothing," she said too quickly.
But I knew better because my instincts screamed it and my pulse quickened, she was hiding something.
