Chapter 386

Elara's POV

By the time Declan finally spoke, it sounded as if he had dragged the words up from the bottom of a frozen lake.

"I… there is someone I must save," he said hoarsely. "Jessa can save her."

I froze.

For a heartbeat, the forest-wolf inside me stilled, breath suspended mid-chest. Images snapped through my mind-my old intel reports, the scattered bits of data I had pieced together on Declan