Chapter 46

***Falcon POV***

“Run” Monty bellows down at me, his face covered in blood as he fights off the vampires comping for the barely alive Laney in my arms. “You need to get her to the center of the throne.”

“Why?” Rome snaps out, giving me a suspicious look as I lift Laney into my arms and stand with her.

“No!” she seethes, stepping toward me. “Like I am letting you anywhere near her, you fucking traitor,”

I step back and take the hate I know I deserve.

“Monty can take her,” I offer halfheartedly. Now that I have Laney in my arms again, I never want to let her go. Those all-consuming sparks radiate through my skin where she touches me. She is alive. At least I know she is still magically alive.

“Yeah right! He fucking stabbed her too!” Rome hisses.

Time is running out as I stumble over a body, hating how much it affects me, knowing it is Joffrey. Sweet and always hungry, Joffrey, who had just found his foothold in the world he had only experienced through a book. If Laney survives this,