Chapter 178
Carter snatched the core from Adina's hands, the glowing core reflecting on his face as he grinned, holding it up like it was the solution to his dysfunctional life.
Adina froze, every thought in her head paused, the only thing that mattered in that moment was Carter not getting that core in his hands.
She couldn't watch him use this very same core her mother had buried right beneath her grave fall into the hands of a man like Carter and the witch. It would be over Adina's dead body before she would let such a thing happen.
A snarl ripped from her throat before she even realized it. She lunged at the man before her.
Her nails grazed his wrist roughly, but Carter was faster. He'd seen her coming even before his beasts could react, he drove his boot into her stomach. The force knocked the air from her lungs, sent her crashing back against a gravestone. Adina gasped out in pain, choking on blood.
