Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
His mouth twitched—not quite a smile, but not entirely cold.
“You’re not the dead weight,” he said abruptly.
The words knocked the air out of me more thoroughly than the hands had.
He stepped back, leaving me standing on my own, heat lingering on my waist where his arm had been.
I stared at him, chest tight. “He—he just died.”
“No,” Grant wheezed from a few feet away, clutching his ribs. “He got… erased. There’s a difference.”
“Not to him,” I whispered.
“No,” Grant agreed. “Not to him.”