Theirs To Possess And Ruin
“We need to get him to the infirmary now! He can still...he can still...”
My voice broke completely because even as I said it, my body already knew.
That stillness wasn’t unconsciousness, it was something else.
Asher exhaled slowly, like this whole situation was exhausting instead of catastrophic.
“That won’t help,” he said.
I turned on him fully now, fury blazing through every vein.
“What do you mean it won’t...”
“He’s already dead.”
The world went quiet, not silent but dead like everything had been sucked out of it in one violent pull.