[HOLLY’s Point of View]
Of all the places, why did it have to be underground?
I wasn’t claustrophobic, but I hated staying in closed spaces because that meant a slim chance of escaping if anything happened—and that meant the possibility that there could be one among these twenty Alphas who could be a spy of the Ambroses. I never wanted to think that one of my husband’s friends might be a traitor. He knew them very well and fought with them in many wars. I trust my husband’s judgment.
There were only a few places I went before. I had never been this far from the Blackwood Territory except for the mountains where our enemies captured my husband and friends the first time they tried to retrieve the black pearl. Since the day that Mel and I tried to decipher the power and my memories from that thing, I made sure I would never part with it.