Chapter 40

“That’s right,” he agreed carefully. “That makes him Sienna’s Uncle and yours.”

That I was afraid of.

And to make matters worse, I had seen a thousand and one times those runes in the basement in the house where I grew up after the death of my parents, the one that belonged to my Uncle. I recognized them, my magic recognized them, and I had no doubt that Yule Cairo Ruiz was Allen Samuel.

The man of a thousand lives, the man of a thousand names.

Samuel. That terrifying sorcerer who destroyed everything in his path millennia ago.

Samuel, my uncle and the man who took care of me when everything fell apart.