"Please, Holly, don't make this any harder," Atticus almost begged, but I didn't listen.I was still trapped in his arms, but I didn't give up trying to break free, not even for a second. Not even knowing that it wasn't easy for him either. His best friend could be being killed at that very moment, and he was there, watching over the safety of someone as insignificant as me, simply because this had been Noah's last moment.I should have felt sorry for him, but, Goddess, at that moment I couldn't care about anything else.“Please, Atticus!” I sobbed, my vision blurred with tears. “Just… Just let me go to him! You know I don’t matter in the middle of this invasion! Nobody will care if you let me go…!”“You have no idea how wrong you are, Holly!” Atticus snorted, and this time, when he pulled me forward by the waist, a wave of despair washed over me as I realized we were approaching the school and the basement where they were going to lock me up. “If Noah even suspects you’re near the bat
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