“A little.” I had of course been told some things. Enough to get by. But Belladonna didn’t ask questions just to ask them. There was something bigger that I was missing and she wanted me to know.
There was clear disappointment in her eyes when she looked at the people around her. “Honestly. I would have assumed the two of you would have told them,” she said to both Milo and Hazel. Hazel looked away while Milo turned his ire to her.
“It was ten years ago and has no baring on today.”
“Doesn’t it?” She raised a perfectly arched brow at him, challenging him with the barest of moves. “Gates are opening, and we don’t know why. We are searching for the Gatekeeper and the Barons are surly trying to flush them out. And, a bloody downfall is sure to ensue if we continue to operate in such terms of secrecy. Or do you think that history can just repeat itself with the same set of rules and have an entirely different outcome.”