cka

heir faces could curd

. A scream tore from her throat as she tried

ound it had become rage, I grabbed the coll

into the fabric. My vision narrowed until all I

ot out, reaching

at my arms, drawing thin lines of blood. Brice an

e yelled, his hands c

t know I possessed. He stumbled backwar

ard nothing, felt nothing but the singular, bur

ed around the m

ull

snapped. The pendant was min

il, clutching at her neck whe

was a small anchor in a sea of chaos. I looked up at their ugly, contor

one wit

en, blind surge of despair and defiance, I turned around a

xpected. I drew my arm back and hur

lint against the morning sky, before disappearing

ped abruptly. Everyon

nger, "neither can you." Before the words had faded, a cold fear s

d, a sleek black Bentley glided to a

Jame's driver.-emerged from the driver's seat. He moved wit

g arms before becoming impassive once more. His arrival was a silent, powerful reminder of whose territor

watched me fight, watched me throw the necklace, and I cou

as my

tion was diverted

site direction, sprinting across the dew-slicked

otton of the shirt and scratc

stares-disgusted, furious, a

pths of the garden, a