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"You can’t save uilt, Josephina reached out and gripped his forearm "Please don’t make , h you helpless Tears welled in her eyes No other choice She tightened her grip on hi the strength out of hi, Tinker Bell? Stop that"

"I’yso , she realized a second later, but darkening Then, utter blackness gobbled up the light, cloaking her, sending her tu pit of despair

Kane set her on her feet

A terrible screah her throat Her knees buckled, but he was no longer able to hold her up She slaround, contact finally severed What was happening? What rong with her? And the screa louder and louder

And yet, through it all, a single whisper ed to claim her attention I hate you Hate you so much Want to kill you Will kill you Soon, soon, so very soon

I don’t understand, she thought, panicked

You deserve pain, and I’ll ain He’shysteria, she drew on every reservoir of strength she possessed, lumbered to her knees and crawled forward, away from Kane Yes, she had to escape Kane All of this had coed to him The more distance, the better Please

Rocks sliced at her palms and knees, but she didn’t care In the distance, she heard the snap of breaking wood The whoosh of air So her feet out fro her face first in the dirt

When the daze cleared, she realized the culprit wasn’t Kane this ti down her cheeks, and continued her journey forward

"Josephina," Kane called "Tinker Bellwhat didyou do? To ht dashed across her small line of vision, followed by another Soon, colors for shape Bushes, tree roots and trunks, piles of leaves, a coyote stalking past--only to stop and bare its teeth, as if preparing to attack her But another tree fell, sla the animal away

Hate you Hate you, hate you, hate you

Painto shatter

Before she could fight her way free, a pair of boots appeared in front of her Boots she recognized

Josephina sed a groan No No! Anyone but him

"Well, well," the owner of those boots said "What do we have here?"

She recognized the voice, as well Leopold, her half brother, had found her He would ensure she returned homeback to her own personal hell

KANE HEARD TINKER Bell screaht No one was allowed to hurt her, not even hiry as he ith her for what she’d done to him

What had she done to hi with her He did Yet, his body was too weak

He’d vowed never to be weak again Or, barring that, to kill the cause

Tinker Bell was the cause, so her He would behe wasn’t sure, and didn’t like that he couldn’t decide

One second he’d been as nor her over his shoulder The next, he’d felt warun to weaken He’d set her down as his lian to tremble Then, he’d crumbled

But then, so had she

The darkness he’d carried for so long had thinned, but instead of strength taking its place, he’d experienced extreue

He’d watched, helpless, as Tinker Bell curled into herself Her skin had gone pallid, and horror had consumed her features She’d lookedhaunted He’d reached for her, but she’d ed to follow Soon she’d disappeared beyond the line of trees

Must help her

"So, it’s safe to say this night isn’t going according to plan"

Williairl"

"Escaped Burned et her"

"I’th to hurl a rock at the warrior’s fat, ugly head "Go!"

"Fine" Footsteps echoed "But you’ll owe

In and out Kane breathed There was soer than the sudden weakness, and he needed to figure out what it was And it should be easy For the first tihts were easy, without any kind of dark filter Euidance He was--<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>