Layla’s POV “What did I ever do to you?” I asked. “I mean, to deserve… all of it.” I hadn’t meant to have the last couple of words come out that way—unsure, like a question—but my heart rate had picked up as soon as the High Priestess looked at me, and all of my thoughts turned to mush. She conti
Layla’s POV They were here. The words became a refrain in my head as I pushed through the chaos of panicked bodies that’d broken out in the clinic since the earth shook. I could feel Delphine running close behind me, but my mind barely registered this fact as I struggled to find a way out Eve
Hector’s POV I could feel all of the blood rushing up into my head as I watched the mayhem unfold in front of me; hear it like the sound of waves crashing against my eardrums as I squinted through the smoke to take in the death zone. Everything had been going as planned before the Hunters rained d
Sameer was dead, and I had felt him go. As this realization was setting in, another followed hotly in its wake. It was an all too familiar sensation of senseless terror that I batted away easily enough, but I knew what it meant and within moments my suspicions were confirmed as Hunters poured int
Layla’s POV With my heart in my throat, I and my Pack mates surged forward as one with Hector leading at the very helm of our counterattack; and when we clashed with the Hunters, ripples seemed to spread out from the contact point. From then onwards, chaos spread like wildfire. There were too man
As soon as I did, I started to run towards the bunker where all of the children and all those who wouldn’t be able to fight had been barricaded into. Some rogues, I thought, had joined forces with the Hunters—and if my suspicions were correct then they had played a big enough role in making sure th
Layla’s POV A sense of collective defeat seemed to linger in the air after Julian’s words as slowly, myself, Hector and our Pack mates straightened from our crouched fighting positions in surrender. The leader of the Hunters had played his cards masterfully, and as two Hunters dragged me by my un
I could feel my rising indignation, but then at that very moment a movement beside him caught my eyes and I turned to find my mother shaking her head at me. I didn’t need words to interpret the warning, and with a deep exhale I let the tension flow out of me even as Julian continued. “LUCKILY FOR