" Hell. I saw Cassie running for that car and you know what ran through my mind, Merrie?” he asked her painfully. Merinus sighed deeply. “That you had failed.” She surprised him with that answer. “You couldn’t protect your own, and now you hadn’t protected Cassie either.” “Yeah,” he breathed out roughly. “But how did you know?” “Because it’s the same thing Sherra told me before she locked herself in her room, "