Chapter 221 If you’re willing to cooperate

CASSANDRA

A manipulation?

My head began to ache as I tried to make sense of all that Kaleb had said. Had Emmett’s interference in saving me from the inferno truly been more than just an act of kindness and heroism?

As I thought of Emmett, I remembered the unfinished sentence Emmett had said to me in that dream.

I left something for you, Cassandra, and you’re the only one who could use it. And the thing…

I felt suffocated by all of this. Between the necklace, my revealed identity, being taken to a foreign land, the downplayed marriage proposal, and now this business with Emmett and his sorcery, I felt as if I were about to break into a million pieces. There was simply too much going on at once, and I couldn’t handle any of it.

I wanted to tell Kaleb that everything he’d uttered was wrong- deeply, horribly, completely wrong, but I couldn’t let out a word. The lump in my throat felt like a boulder and my heart kept skipping in my chest. As I swam with dizziness, I began to wonder if I wa