Her long white-silver hair looked flat in the moonlight. I watched her pull her sleeves down over her hands, like she was hiding some kind of violation. Her face was tear streaked and pale.
I looked back at the medical building.
That was Marr’s wing.
I took a step toward Seph, unable to help myself.
Then I heard it again—
that faint scrape
like rocks shifting under a boot.
I whipped around, lighter clenched in my fist.
“Who the fuck is out there?” I snapped, heat flaring up my spine.
Silence.
Then—
snick.
A match struck in the dark.
I froze.
Every instinct in me screamed.
The tiny flame hovered for a single heartbeat—
a spark suspended in black—
and then somethingblurredout of the shadows.
Fast.
Too fast.
It hit me square in the chest.
All air punched from my lungs.
The lighter flew from my hand.
The world spun.
Fire and stars and cold earth flashing together—
And then—
darkness.
Chapter 32
Seph
The explosion ripped through the air.
