The Mate Games
He knows what I am.
My stomach twists. The taste of bile creeps up the back of my throat. I turn and run, pushing past bodies, rubble, smoke. I don’t even know where I’m going, I just know I have to get out.
I reach the gate leading to the tunnels under the arena. Aaron and a few others are already there, dragging the wounded behind them. The door is open, barely hanging on its hinges. I wave them through, urging them to go faster.
“Hurry,” I whisper, my voice too dry to rise above the noise. “Go. Get them out.”