They were the smart ones, and they had gotten us.The driver’s eyes met mine in the rearview mirror, a sly grin spreading across his face. He pulled out a gun and turned around, his eyes leaving the road but his other hand still on the wheel. He pointed the gun at Sapphire. “This was so much easier
“Yes.”My eyes scanned the men, counting five of them. Five, yet deadly. They watched us like hawks, waiting to see if we would attack. When we didn’t, one of the men moved forward, swinging his sword to my neck. “Where is the black scroll?” he demanded. “Tell me now, or you die!” He yelled and rais
~SAPPHIRE~‘’Zephyr!’’ I muttered his name as I shook his body to wake him up, but he didn’t respond. I wanted to scream at him for putting himself at risk yet again because of me, but he lay lifeless in my arms, blood seeping from his back, his face becoming paler with each passing second. He was s
‘’A little more, Mira. Please, do this for us.’’Mira groaned again but didn’t say anything and continued to run. Zephyr’s life depended on it whether we liked it or not. Thunder rumbled, the sky opened above us, and rain poured in sheets. It happened just like the night I was being chased. The Moon
I nodded and took the bowl from his hand. The man turned Zephyr over to a shelf beside the fireplace and brought out a box with various medical instruments.He looked at me with a frown spread across his face. ‘’Don’t give me that look. I live in the forest, so I have to be prepared in case I get at
~ZEPHYR~"Run Landon!" The voice sounded familiar, yet it was from a woman holding onto a boy’s hand and running with him. It seemed that they were being chased by something or someone. The woman held on tighter to the boy, passing through bodies lying on the ground covered in blood.The moon was fu
‘’I warned you not to run, little boy,’’ The tattooed masked man yelled as he reached the boy. With one swing of his sword, he slashed the boy across the chest, again and again, until the boy’s shirt was torn and covered in his blood. The masked man didn’t stop his deadly torture of the little boy a
‘’I am sorry, Sapphire. I had no idea that it was you and…’’ I tried to explain, but she stopped me and pointed behind me, and I looked to see a bed.‘’I know that you were having a nightmare, and I tried to…’’ her voice broke again as she struggled to breathe. ‘’I had thought that by touching you a