Chapter 18
“What happened?” I gasped out as I broke into their cluster. Pebbles were still tumbling down the staircase behind me, but I didn’t actually remember working my way through the intervening space. Somehow, though, I’d ended up at the bottom while Liam was still nearly at the top. Meanwhile, the roar of the waterfall must have muffled the clatter of my approach because Tank and Crow responded as if I was an enemy, leaping to their feet and arraying themselves protectively between Kira and myself.
Allen, on the other hand, remained seated, cradling the teen’s sweat-sodden head in his lap. “She collapsed,” he said simply, recognizing me before the others did. Then he scooted sideways and let me take over his position, Kira’s limbs flopping doll-like as she was transferred from his
