Chapter 360
Daphne
I look at the tiny steps leading up the cliff face and start to run.
My heart races. Please, please, please.
I'm too slow.
I use the ability,Panther's Grace and suddenly the world sharpens, my muscles coil, and I'm jumping, climbing, moving at inhuman speed. The rocks blur beneath my hands. The wind screams in my ears.
But when I get to the top—
It's too late.
I make eye contact with the love of my life.
There's a knife in her chest.
Her pretty yellow dress,the one I helped her pick this morning, the one that matches her eyes—stains red immediately. Spreading. Blooming. Drowning.
My whole world collapses.
I don't think. I just move.
I shove Elliot. Hard. He flies sideways, his head cracking against the cliff wall. He crumples. Doesn't move.
I catch Vivienne before she falls.
Her body is heavy in my arms. Too heavy. Wrong.
"Daphne." Her voice is small. Wet.
