Chapter 274

Delilah

The battlefield was chaos. Everything about it seemed to call for rage, for a fight, for something that neither one of us would have wanted to be in. And yet here we were, caught in the middle of it.

It was a war like no other. I read like no other, and the battle that stood bloodier than anything else had ever been. And I knew what blood was. This was different.

Claws against claws. Screams and ash and blood thick in the air. The mist wrapped around my ankles like chains, but I kept moving. Kept cutting.

I kept fighting because I knew that I was not going to stop. I swore that I was not going to stop.

Because she was here.

I could feel her.

Her presence was one that formed quickly but disappeared. She was trying to get me to find her. And I knew that it was only a matter of time before I did, but she wanted to lure me away from the crowd. She wanted me to trade her or she wanted to use me like she had used the others to try a