Chapter 104
Anthere–down the shore, maybe twenty yards away
Alden.
He was being dragged.
His heels lell thick, broken trails through the sand, carving desperate lines that told me he’d tried to fight. His arms were wrenched behind his back, his small tists clenched.
His hoodie his favorite one, the one he said made him brave–w bunched awkwardly at the shoulders. One sleeve had ridden up past his elbow, exposing skin scraped taw.
His face was pale. His lips trembling. His eyes–wide and terrified searched the beach like he wasn’t sure what was real anymore.
“AIDEN!”
I scromed his name so load it ripped something in my throat. My voice cracked apart, sharp and raw and full of fear The rogue dragging him turned like a startled animal, his head jerking over his shoulder–and that’s when I saw
The dagger.
Silver
Not decorative. Not bluffing.
The blade gleamed in the sunlight, held tight to the soft skin beneath Aiden’s jaw. One twitch, one slip, one heartbeat—and it would be over.
“Don’t come any closer!” the rogue shouted, his voice cracking with desperation. “I swear to the goddess–I’ll kill him!”
My legs moved on instinct. I surged forward.
But stopped.
Dead.
The knife glinted again. The way it trembled in the man’s hand made it worse, not better. The rogue was scared–panicked. Unstable. A single wrong move and he’d follow through just to make it stop.
The world narrowed to a single, terrible thread.
The wind howled off the oce
ocean behind us, but i didn’t feel it. The sun blazed high and cruel above, but I didn’t see it.
All I could see was that blade. His throat. My child.
Then-
The thunder of footsteps.
stling Sand crunching.
Brush cracking behind me. Leaves rustling Sand crunching.
Петек
Brock
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