The Leashed Wolf

ROWAN’S POV

“So they gave up,” Nalini says. “Genevieve gave up. When the ritual failed the third time, she told me the truth, plainly, the way only she ever did. That the Matron had chosen you and would not be moved, not by ritual, not by anything, and that meant there was only one thing left to do. If we couldn’t take the god out of you, we had to keep her asleep inside you. Forever. Buried so de