Fourteen
EMILIO
Snatches of memory flickered behind my eyes. The flash of magic… My wolf form lunging at a fae soldier… The metallic taste of his blood filling my mouth. The fierce clanging of swords reverberated off the walls. Ronan shouting, running toward me. Elena in the line of fire. Ronan’s face, stricken and panicked.
And then came the burning. Poison. My body feeling like it was consuming itself just to escape.
Pain. So much pain, and everyone around me screaming, all at once. Shouting orders. Ronan bent over me. Elena, tears leaking from her eyes. And Gray, holding my hand…
Fire. Smoke. So hot, and still so much pain.
And then…. Nothing. I was floating, soaring like a bird through the night sky until the inferno at the warehouse was nothing more than a tiny point of light on
