Defiant.
Now, he looked defeated.
The war had changed him.
Had erased his lopsided smile and killed the challenge in his eyes.
But, despite it all, there was still a glimmer of hope.
That this was all a dream.
That I wasn’t defiling the grounds of the most revered sanctuary in Solkar’s Reach.
That I wouldn’t spill blood today.
But he was wrong.
I would shatter that hope right out of him.
His warriors reached for their weapons, already moving, as if one of them might still be faster than my arrow.
They couldn’t.
“Traitor,” I whispered and loosed the arrow that would shatter Solkar’s Reach and his heart.
The arrow flew straight at him, before curving through the air around his shoulder.
A shot only The Huntress could make.
Under everyone’s astounded gazes, the tip caught Nadya’s fur cuff, embedding itself in the wall just outside the crypt entrance she refused to walk through.
“What the–” She reached her other hand out to free herself.
I fired another arrow, catching her other cuff.
She was trapped and staring at me as if she was terrified I’d gone insane.
“What are you doing?” Ryker bellowed, caught somewhere between shock, loyalty to me, and fear for her.
He whirled around to free her.
“No,” I bit out
My powers snapped, engulfing Nadya and I in a blue orb not even the crater’s Rays could crumble now.
Not when I was shock and fury incarnate.
I scowled and caught her chin in my hand, teeth bared. “What did you do, Nadya?”
Chapter 67
Allie
“You’re crazy!” She yanked her face away. I let her. I hadn’t been holding on too tightly anyway.
Even now, seeing her caught and distraught tugged something inside of me.
That maybe everything was one big coincidence my mind had jumbled into danger.
