Kade’s POV: “ARIAAA!” The scream tore from my throat a half-second after the gunshot. Time fractured. One moment she was a blur of motion, the next, she was falling. A strength I didn’t know I had erupted in me. I wrenched free from the guards' grasp, everything narrowing to the space between her and the ground. I caught her just before she hit, her body a dead weight in my arms. Her eyes were open, but I could tell she was barely a moment away from her vision completely fading away. “Aria?” I choked out, my voice cracking as I cradled her. “Aria, please. Look at me. Stay with me.” I could feel the life seeping out of her, a terrifying warmth spreading across her chest and soaking into my shirt. My vision blurred with tears of pure panic. I looked up, my gaze finding Wolfe. “You killed her!” I roared, my voice raw and broken. “You fucking killed her!” Wolfe stood frozen, a statue of shock. The gun clattered to the pavement, the sound unnaturally loud in the sudden
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