that every step sent bolts of agony through me. I just needed to get away. I couldn't go back into the caves. He'd

people who were running ahead of me seemed to slow down as they reache

lled from behind us. "We

ain fell in thick, heavy sheets. I ran into the rain, and a flash of memory went through my mind. For a moment, I was running towards a paved hig

lways come for me. He promised to protect me, to take care of me.

nto the ground. I felt someone run across my leg. Someone else ran across my arm, d

looking, but there were no lights coming, no thrum of an engine, j

saw a flash of light cutting through the darkness as the gun went o

ancia yelled

slipped though the air then turned silver as it drifted over my head. I looked in the direction it was coming from

the ground and burst into

don't

elled, twisting, and pull

gun clattered to the ground, and he slumped against the tree. Some

. It shuffled forward out of the cave and sank into a crouch like a

ifted through the air. It was a man, I was sure, and it

. "Please, she

tared at the beast as it simply watched us. Francia

not your baby

d her by the neck, the baby in his arm as he lifted h

said. "You are more

carelessly t

ow how she got this child and

urse,

hed. "There is

. The rain didn't seem to touch him

have been

they set off a bomb in the center of tow

would ca

ughed.

ost them will be little more than fodder by the end of it." He turned back towar

n half of the group seemed to

ou do to them?" I shuddered. "You'll

e. As he grew closer, my vision blurred. His face was shadowe

couldn't even speak as he pulle

ed at how unlike anything I've ever seen before he seemed. Then, I

suffering," he said, his eyes drifting over me. "Yo

lurched

.. It is not as though the Full Moon line is known f

talk about the Full Moon pack that w

his head back. "At le

ey killed the vampir

eyes glinting w

I've had to listen to such i

my chest, I bowled over, curling away fr

d through the pain. "Candido is

"It seems I have saved your life yet

the rain wash away the blood

, looking down at me and pursing

is Ca

now and why would I care?

an manage to follow?" She nodded sti

going anywhere until you

by my arm. I yelped as he s

me!" I said.

you will and won't do, nor will I be wasting

"You don't treat

d kept failing. "Raven would have been smart

d to bite him. My teeth clamped down on something that felt more like stone than flesh. It made my teeth ac

aised by wolves," he said. "I

d as tears streamed down my face. "You'r

ore tears stream

ke you re

up to take you off my hands. Maybe you both would learn a thing

's as stubborn as every one of hi

I asked. "I know y

matter? His whereabouts are