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Chapter 66 - Aunty?

🦋 ALTHEA

Two sides with me in the middle, with no idea in whose fate my fate lay—but at least they had made it out alive—

The moment of my sliver of victory curdled into ash before I could draw a full breath.

"Gammas!" Draven's voice cut through the chaos like a whip. "Surround them on all sides!" he snapped. "Get the girl and subdue the hell hound!"

My mother's cold hand reached for mine as the world slowed to a crawl. Her hands morphed into paws, clawing at my skin for a whisper of a second as the brigfade moved to cut out every possible exit, moving around us. A total wave of bared teeth and shifting bodies.

Yet, they were too slow.

Thorne behind me morphed into a force of nature, his arm fighting around me, pulling me flush against him. It was the grip of ruin, the crushing certainty of a predator claiming its hard-won kill.

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