Chapter 6: The Deal

"I'm not." I said it without blinking, because Maeve taught me that a lie only works if you don't decorate it. "The woman who raised me was Old Blood. She left me what she left me." I lifted my chin. "One bottle. It's gone now. Your father got the last of it. If you want to hunt a ghost, hunt her — but she's under a heartwood tree on a mountain, and she isn't coming back." Kian studied me for a long, dangerous moment. Then he stepped back, and I could breathe again. "Fine," he said. "Then...