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Chapter 54 The Tunnel That Betrayed
SERAPHINA
The vampire’s words rang like a whisper in my skull–A she– wolf.
Fear gripped my heart. So it was not just a rumor. Vampires could really tell male or female by the scent of their blood. My perfume failed when confronted with vampires.
Phina growled in my mind. “But no one else heard him!TM
bats on the ceiling
I clenched my fists to help control my fear. Yeah, none of the Alphas had heard the vampire because of the b screamed. So loud that it hurt my ears.
Thousands of wings exploded into the air, a sound like a tsunami made of bone and shadow. The bats– no, the vampires- were awake..
“AAAA!” Ronan growled, driving the iron rod into the weakened wall alongside Finn using all of his strength while Dante gave it a hard kick and Asher’s wolf practically plowed into the wall like a truck hitting the wall.
1 gasped as the caye cracked, a splintering roar tearing through the den. Chunks of rock fell like hail. Sunlight burst through at hole, a glowing beam slicing the darkness. As the slight sunlight fell on all of us something happened.
Asher’s wolf jerked violently, his body convulsing as if struck by lightning. In a flash of flickering bones and skin, he shifted- back. Naked, panting, eyes wide with horror and adrenaline.
Everyone’s expressions were full of shock as Asher’s curse was broken.
“Run!” he rasped, voice raw as he stared at us. “The sunlight will not last for more t
than five seconds. Movel Move!! Move!!”
We didn’t need to be told twice. Especially me. I had to get out of here before the vampires tried to catch me or revealed my secret. Without looking back, we sprinted over debris and dodged jagged rocks. Just like Asher had predicted, the sunlight quickly disappeared leaving us running in the dark tunnel. I could not tell who was ahead of or behind me.
Behind us, a roar of fury echoed through the vampire den. My heart pounded louder than my footfalls. I could feel the chase even though they hadn’t yet moved until the sunlight disappeared.
The tunnel was narrow, slick, and steep. My fingers scraped against rough stone as we hurtled forward, and still I heard them –screeches like claws against metal, voices that weren’t human, weren’t wolf, weren’t anything natural.
“Keep going!” Asher barked. “ Don’t look back!”
My legs burned. My lungs screamed. The air was thick with earth and old blood.
But then, I saw it
Light.
A sliver of golden salvation just ahead.
We’re almost there!” Finn yelled but his voice echoed in the tunnel confusing me as to where he was. Due to the rush and the vampires following us I could not focus enough to use Phina’s vision to see in the dark. However, I could feel that
meone was ahead of que kicking the obstacles out of our way while there was someone behind me, his chest brushing me never I stumbled on a random stone under my feet. But they never outran ine. Who was 10?
Just as I thought it, I telt a hand trying to catch my hand in the dark and another hand attempting to find my other hand, Someule was on my right and left tuu.
Who was it?
In the next secund, slight sunlight came into view.
Three figures reached the opening first, launching themselves into the sunlight like it was heaven itself. The sharp sunlight what they stood blinded me for a second and I could not tell who the three were
Just as I neared the mouth of the tunnel, something groaned a deep, scary sound. The earth shuddered under iny feet.
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Chapter 54 The Tunnel That Betrayed
“Wait!” I choked. “The tunnel–f”
But it was too late. I was at the point where I could have been killed by a rock falling on my head.
“No!” A hand wrapped around my waist from behind and pulled me back.
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With a sickening crack, the roof above collapsed in a rain of stone and dirt. I was flung backward as a boulder crashed between us and the sun..
The mouth of the tunnel sealed itself shut in front of my eyes and in those last moments, I saw him. Ronan. On the other side of the tunnel, standing in the sun watching me with wide violet eyes as the tunnel was blocked completely with the last
stone.
Gone.
Falling on the ground but not getting hurt due to the strong and powerful presence behind me, I sat up in the sudden silence heart thundering. Dust filled the air, making it hard to breathe.
For a moment, I sat there staring at the blocked exit horrified. My mind was too foggy to understand the situation.
“Are you okay?” A familiar voice breathed softly in my ears.
I glanced over my shoulder to see the person holding me. My heart drummed in my chest. Then a face came into focus that I never expected.
“Asher,” I whispered in shock.
Phina froze in my mind. So it had been Asher behind me the whole time. He was the one who saved me. Not…him.
Deep in my heart I realized that my wolf and myself were disappointed. Wait, why was I disappointed? So disappointed that my heart was squeezed to the point I felt it was painful.
However, at that moment I had a horrifying realization, I was disappointed that it was not Ronan
I wanted the person behind me to be Ronan.
The person holding me. The person whispering in my ear.
I wanted it to be him…
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