Chapter 41

I blinked slowly and found myself back in the weapon room, in my human body and with my left thigh severely cut. Coincidentally, my mom burst through the door and gasped dramatically.

"Lily! I've been looking for you! I thought you were….your leg! What happened to your leg?"

She rushed to me and helped me up. She didn't ask me anything or say anything as she helped me walk slowly back to the safe room, because of my injured leg. There, she and Sarah helped treat my wounds. They kept on asking me what happened but I just told them I mistakenly held a long dagger and injured myself. I noticed my mom's scrutinizing look on me as I recounted the lie to both of them, but she suppressed her questions and told me to rest. 

Adrian was right. The vampires retreated but a lot of our warriors had been injured and some brutally killed. 

We held their memorials the day after and my father had gotten sterner after Rex had given him the final verdict to prepare fo