"Did you cut this out of the gem?"
"It was nothing." He shrugged.
He was lying.
That must have been really painful, there were certainly consequences for that. It wasn't every day he was ripping out his soul and making bracelets for people out of it.
"What do you want?" she whispered.
The room fell into silence.
"Is this about the Life Gem? You want me to find it for you, right? Stop confusing me."
"Well," he stood up slowly. "I didn't want to bother you with this before, but the witches couldn't extract the link you share with the Bearer of the gem, for me to own."
A chill ran down Belladonna's spine.
No wonder he had been very interested in helping her find those witches.
There was a time she had almost tricked herself into thinking he did that because he considered them as friends.
How ridiculous.
"You told them about the gems?"
"I told them to extract every unnatural link you had."
Belladonna frowned, taking a step forward.
