A Deadly Coming of Age

Cora.

I eyed him warily. Why was he here? Was he here to help me? No, that couldn’t be right. He was probably among the many people my father had wronged. What did he plan to do to me?

“You’re the damsel Mancini was very protective of at the council camp, aren’t you? Do you really have ties to him too?”

I didn’t know how to answer that question, not when his intentions here were unclear. “What do