Gideon moves faster than should be possible, throwing himself in front of me just as two shots ring out.
I watch in horror as blood blooms across his left shoulder. Dark red flow spread through his gray t-shirt. But he doesn't even flinch.
“Stay behind me!” He grabs the nearest soldier and snaps his neck with one brutal twist. The sound of cracking bones makes me sick.
I bend behind a toppled desk, my hands scrambling through the debris, when something cold and metallic brushes my fingers -
Gideon's military ID tags.
I turn them over in my shaking hands, and I also choke. My name is engraved beside his: Nova and
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