Chapter 36

Declan

This one held a human girl, barely older than me. Her cheeks were hollow from hunger, her eyes sunken yet still strikingly blue. She stared openly at us when the door opened, no fear in her gaze—only defiance. But the moment she caught sight of my father, her shoulders hunched, her jaw tightening as if she were holding back words she wasn’t allowed to say.

“Not all break so easily,” my fath