chapter 27: Epic secrets (iii)

Cara’s pov

Debby hesitated for a moment. The shift in her heartbeat didn't escape my already heightened senses.

I…i read about them in an old journal, a long time ago, that's where I learnt about the cupbearers “ she said but something was not adding up, she talked like she knows them on a closer level than someone who just read them in a book. ‘Debby lied’.

I stared at her a little wary of her now, I couldn’t trust her completely, not after she lied to my face. I was lost in thought, my mind racing, but I tried keeping up the facade. “And you think I’m one of them? That I’ve inherited their powers?”

Debby nodded slowly. “I don’t just think it, Cara. I know it from the book. The signs are the same that have been written in the book. The dreams, the strange surges of power, the way you broke those chains… you’re a Cupbearer, Cara. The last of them, perhaps.”

“But… if I’m the last cupbearer” I whispered, fear creeping into my voice, “does that mean I’m in danger? Could those who destro