Chapter Ninety ThreeThe Betrayal and the EscapeLena's POVThe darkness was thick with tension, it curled around me like a strangling shroud. My ribcage slammed tight against my thundering heart. I held Damian's hand tightly, and my breath expelled short and shallowly. We were running. We couldn't help it.Bianca's soldiers were close. Too close.The forest behind the cabin loomed before us, its shadows stretching out like ghostly fingers in the light of the moon. We didn't have time to linger. Damian pulled me along, his grip tight but urgent, and we plunged into the shadows, our boots crunching through dead leaves and twigs.Behind us, the sounds of those who pursued us reached my ears: murmurs, the breaking of twigs now and again, swaying of branches. They were advancing, hurrying, and they knew these woods as well as we did."Quickly," Damian gasped, his breath no louder than the pounding of my heart.I did. God, I did. My legs ached, my lungs heaved for air, but I pushed myself
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