Chapter 137

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Head throbbing, Amelia looked at the girl in the building, on the interior of a massive, open window, the body of which was as tall as her thighs. She looked small inside such a massive structured, yet, with impossible grace, maintaining the arrow knocked and her head tilted to purpose it, she stepped up onto the window frame, then dropped into the courtyard.

Amelia gasped—it had to be a thirty foot drop—but earlier than she may want to do more than tense, the girl landed without difficulty on the balls of her feet, her legs taking the have an impact on smoothly.

She didn't even lose the knock on the arrow.

Amelia stared at her, one hand nevertheless fisted in Gabriel's waistband.

The female had beautiful, amber-colored, eyes, catlike in their shape, even though as human as Amelia 's—and stuffed with tears.

“Let him go,” she stated through her teeth, and Amelia dropped her grip on Gabriel, inserting her arms up, arms clos