Sy.
A sob tore out of me. “Please!”
Suddenly one of the soldiers jerked violently, as if someone had punched him in the face.
A gun lifted into the air beside him.
It fired.
The soldier dropped.
The others shouted in alarm, firing wildly into the trees.
Whatever was out there moved like a whisper through the dark.
One soldier’s legs were kicked out from beneath him. Another gasped as a blade struck his throat. A third was tripped and shoved face-first into the mud before a shot rang out above him.
Then silence.
I could only stare in horror.
When the last body fell still, I looked up.
Sable shimmered into view.
“Quickly,” she said. “We have to run.”
She rushed toward me and grabbed my arm, hauling me up the bank.
“Where are we going? Where’s Kieran?”
“He’ll meet us soon. Come on, Seph. They will find us if you don’t move.”
“How will he know where we are?”
“We have a system! Don’t worry about it Seph.”
Don’t worry about it.
The words sent a strange chill down my spine.
I didn’t know why.
Maybe because I had heard them before. The night Sable faked her death.
I followed Sable deep into the darkness, through a path only she seemed to know.
One that took us far away from the compound.
“How do you know where you are going?” I breathed.
“I know these woods like the back of my hand. Come on, we have to hurry if we want to get to the meeting place on time.”
“Are we meeting Kieran?”
“He had to stay back at the compound. He’ll see us soon.”
Something else bugged me.
