Chapter 101

Amelia! GET DOWN! Gabriel screamed in her head, and instinctively she did, losing to the dirt, smacking her elbow on rock, and every other digging into her side as she hit the dirt.

She was too slow, nevertheless bringing her smarting arm up to cover her head when feet landed on the dirt in the front of her.

Human feet.

Amelia iced over again, then snapped her head up to find Mark, eyes vast and face beaming as he took a knife from between his enamel and clasped it in his fist, raising it excessive over his own head, as if to force it into her skull.

A large shadow exceeded over them, alongside with the whir of some thing heavy whipping via the air, and a roar in contrast to any Amelia had ever heard.

But the tiger man was dropping, that knife glowing in the dim afternoon light, and the shadows method from in the back of him and over Amelia , weren't going to reach him in time.

It was reflex to throw her hand up, to block the downward blow of