couldn’t hide away from it any longer. “Did he kill her?” Rua panted. “He killed a lot of people to keep his secret . . . your secret,” Baba Airu said. Rua felt her throat constricting as if a hand was squeezing her airways shut. She shook her head in disbelief. “He killed witches to keep them from telling his father that we were Fated?” Rua took a ragged breath.
