Chapter 149

“A dangerous group?” quipped Arielle, Tamar might be dangerous but she barely qualified as a group.

“Father? I…” but in that moment an arrow lodged itself in Lord Fremont’s back. Arielle experienced a lot of emotions at once, in a split second she was by her father’s side.

“Father, Father!” with the little strength he had left, Lord Fremont pushed his daughter to an angle he could face her directly and said with all the strength he could muster, “run! run! Far… far!”

“Father, I cannot…”

“The library in the hills…go now!” just then an arrow whizzed past that should have launched itself in Arielle’s chest but as if her father had seen it coming he shielded her with his body and his last word to her was, “princess.”

She screamed in anguish; her father had just shielded her death. Another arrow whizzed past and Arielle although heartbroken knew that she had to make an escape. Arrows were fired into her room in succession that there was now a big hole that h