Semua Bab My Arch Nemesis in my Bed: Bab 211 - Bab 220

The video kept replaying in my head long after Jonathan left, and I kept seeing my father’s unconscious body and Samuel’s stupid smile and thinking about how spectacularly screwed we both were. I yanked on the chains again because I hadn’t learned my lesson the first twelve times, and the silver burned so deep I could feel it in my bones now. The blood dripping down my arms was getting darker, which probably wasn’t great and when I tried to heal the wounds they just kept reopening. Nyx was quiet in my head and I didn’t blame her because what was there to say that would make this better? We were chained in a dungeon with no way out and my father was somewhere else equally screwed and Luca had no idea where either of us were. Time did that thing where it stopped making sense and I couldn’t tell if I’d been sitting here for two hours or two days, and eventually I gave up trying to track it and just focused on not passing out because unconscious people don’t escape from dungeons.

They’d been walking in silence for six hours now, checking every abandoned building and dried-up creek bed they came across, and Luca’s throat was raw from calling Lily’s name into empty spaces that never answered back.Arden was maybe fifty feet ahead doing that thing where he’d stop every few minutes and tilt his head like he was listening to something, and every time he did it Luca felt his chest get tighter because what if Arden heard something that meant they were too late, what if Lily was already—Arden stopped moving.“What is it?” Luca asked.“Blood. I smell her blood.”Luca’s heart tried to climb out of his chest and he was running before his brain caught up to what his legs were doing, he crashed through the underbrush after Arden who was moving even faster.They broke through the tree line and hit the riverbank where the water was moving fast and loud and that’s when Luca saw her.Lily was sprawled across the rocks about twenty feet downstream, one arm thrown over her face

One copy moved toward where Luca was fighting Samuel, another went for the witches, and the third was placed between Jonathan and where Lily’s real body stood.The copy that reached Luca didn’t attack Samuel directly, she just threw up some kind of barrier that the next silver bomb bounced off harmlessly, and that was all the opening Luca needed.He half shifted and launched himself at Samuel before the older wolf could throw another bomb, got his jaws around Samuel’s shoulder and bit down.Samuel screamed and dropped the blade, tried to shift but Luca didn’t give him the chance. He threw him across the clearing hard enough that Samuel hit a tree and slumped down with blood pouring from his mouth.Luca stalked toward him while Samuel tried to crawl away, and then Cain was there coming from the opposite direction with wolves behind him.Samuel looked between Luca in front and Cain behind and his face went gray, and he started saying something about family and how they couldn’t do this

Luca caught me before I hit the ground, his arms wrapping around me while I tried to remember how breathing worked, and I could hear people crying but I couldn’t tell if it was from relief or grief.“I’ve got you,” Luca said, and his voice was shaking. “You’re okay, I’ve got you.”I wanted to tell him I was fine except I couldn’t form words, could barely keep my eyes open, and the last thing I saw before everything went dark was Elder Isaac walking toward me.When I opened my eyes again everything was blurry and my head felt like it had been stuffed with cotton, and it took me a solid thirty seconds to figure out where I was.Luca’s room. Our room, I corrected myself mentally.The sun was coming through the windows in that way that meant it was either very early morning or late afternoon, and when I turned my head I saw Luca asleep in the chair next to the bed with his hand holding mine.He looked terrible, dark circles under his eyes and his hair sticking up in every direction and I

The news about Maya came two days later, and I heard about it from Cain who looked like he’d aged years in the space of a week.He didn’t say anything at first, just poured himself coffee and stood there drinking it while staring at nothing, and I was about to ask if he was okay when he finally spoke.“They found Maya’s body this morning,” Cain said flatly, and my hand froze halfway to the cereal box.“What?” I asked, because surely I’d heard wrong.“In a river about fifty miles from here,” Cain continued, still not looking at me. “Medical examiner says she walked into sunlight and let it burn her. They found her remains on the riverbank.”I sat down hard in the nearest chair because my legs had stopped working properly. “She killed herself.”“Yeah,” Cain said, finally turning to look at me with this expression I couldn’t read. “She left a note. Asked that it be delivered to Soraya. It just said ‘I’m sorry. This is the only way to make it right.’”I tried to figure out how I felt abou