Beautiful.
Terrified.
“You can’t promise me that,” she whispered.
“Yes,” I said softly. “I can.”
Emotion flickered across her face so hard it nearly wrecked me.
Because I think some part of her wanted to believe me more than she wanted oxygen.
Then suddenly?—
The tavern lights went out.
Darkness slammed through the room.
Instant.
Total.
And outside?—
A vehicle screeched to a stop in the rain.
15
FELICITY
Darkness swallowed the tavern instantly.
One second light.
The next?—
Nothing.
Isabel gasped sharply beside me.
Every instinct in my body detonated at once.
Run.
Hide.
Move.
But before panic could fully take hold, Hersh’s hand tightened gently against the back of my neck.
Grounding me.
Keeping me here.
“Everybody stay still,” he said calmly into the darkness.
Calm.
God, how was he calm?
