I said, slowly backing up, “something’s not right. Gav, we need to leave. Now.”“Leave?” his head swung around to look at me, his lantern still hanging above Samira’s body. The top shook and rattled, his hands just as unsteady as mine. “We can’t go anywhere until we find an explanation for this.”“Explanation? There is no explanation for this!”Gavin was right, of course. We couldn’t leave. I was just freaking out. But the passage walls—or tomb walls, or whatever the damn Book of the Ancients said they were—were beginning to close in on me, and I couldn’t breathe.“We watched her leave. We saw her ourselves,” Gavin whispered, obviously trying to convince himself. “She left with Arianna. There’s no way….no way…”“Whatever’s going on, the Book of the Ancients wouldn’t be leading us to this unless there was a reason.” I inhaled sharply, drawing the comfort from that realization deep into my lungs. “Right?”“I…I don’t know. I’m still in shock here, give me a second to think this through.”I looked warily away from the passageway walls to Gavin’s stunned face and back to the woman lying in the coffin before us.
