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Maybe this was all a trap. Maybe she had planned this all along.
Zac cursed and drew my attention back to the window.
It only took a few seconds of fighting for Zac and Alek to pin the beast. With a horrifying screech, they took it down.
I exhaled. “She must know you’re here,” I mumbled as Alek crawled back inside. “You have to go.”
“I’m not leaving you,” Alek demanded. “Don’t you dare even suggest that, Lyra.”
He grabbed the chains around my ankles first, snapping them apart effortlessly between his hands.
It surprised me at first, until I remembered that demons were stronger than the rest of us. They had supernatural strength, and it was probably easy for him to break something as fragile as a metal chain.
He did the same to my wrists.
And then his hands fell to the chains bolted loosely around my neck. “She deserves to die for this,” he muttered as Salem kicked the chains away.
“Funny,” I replied. “She would say the same to me.”
Alek smiled, but I didn’t miss the way his brows tightened in concern. He held my head with one hand and slipped his fingers under the chains with the other.
The feeling of his skin against mine distracted me, long enough for him to twist his wrist and snap the chains apart.
And then, for what felt like the second time ever in my life, I was free.
“Can you walk?” Alek asked. I nodded, even though I wasn’t entirely sure I could. He helped me rise to my feet. My legs were like water beneath me, but I had to move forward. To the window, out of here. I had to get out.
“Hurry up!” Zac urged from the window. “We don’t have much time until the cameras are back on!”
Panic gripped onto my chest, squeezing tighter than ever before. Not again. I wasn't going to get caught again.
Salem jumped up and through the window, with Zac pulling her from the other side.
“Your turn,” Alek said to me. “Grab hold of Zac.” He gripped my waist and lifted me, propelling me in the direction of the window. Zac’s hands were there in an instant, ready to get me out of there. Ready to help me.
He pulled my body from the other side, and before I could even think, I was lying on the grass outside.
The sun had never felt warmer on my face.
Alek was already grabbing my shoulders, pulling me back up from the ground. “Come on,” he said. “We can’t stay here. Your mother will scavenge this entire city looking for you.”
“I don’t doubt that,” I croaked.
Salem gave me a tight hug before helping me into the passenger seat of Alek’s car. “You deserve more, Lyra,” she whispered to me. “You deserve to live.”
I don’t know why those words hurt me so much, but I bit back my tears as I let her guide me onto the leather seat.
Alek started the engine.
And drove us away into the night.
ChapterThirty-Four
“You’re protected here,” Alek explained. “Nobody will hurt you. We can trust them.”
Too late, I thought. Alek didn’t take me to his house. Instead, Alek pushed the door open to our small, dark motel room. We had driven a couple of hours outside the city before neither of us could keep our eyes open.
To my surprise, though, the innkeeper had the same glowing green eyes as Alek.
