Chapter 3

Back at Blackwood Manor, I slipped into my room and tore open the envelope. Inside were a Frost Scroll and a note that held three words. [Waiting for you.]

The sight of the scroll settled me.

The Frost Scroll was a tiny teleportation circle. Press the wolfblood sigil on it, and the circle would activate in an instant.

If I wanted out, no one could stop me.

After mulling it over, I decided to vanish on the day of the ceremony. My family needed time to move, and Cedric needed a taste of the suffering I'd swallowed all these years.