lia
and soaked Sadie's torn collar. Bu
and spent every ounce of air l
Swim! Beg the Grand
e like a blade
. Choosing death
ce blamed me for it. Even at the end, broken in that mass grave, her
ng it again. Dying
drown this enti
lave," Bridger snarled, "or I
sank her teeth into his dagger
ties. His grip failed, and the silver d
r, tore free like a wild bird escaping a cage, and
nged and closed on nothing but a scrap of her skirt. Sadie hit the wate
leeding wrist, face contorting into an ugl
erous. The voice of a man deciding that if he coul
hed a steel-tipped armor-piercing arrow, and drew the s
die so badly, I wil
tting through the water, faster th
ow hissed toward her spi
and yanked her down with all my strength. The arrow grazed the crown of he
h and pulled her into the deep
ainst a rock. "Unleash the hounds! The mutat
lowing red eyes, spiked iron collars - hit the water in a pincer formation. They were b
rely around the exhausted Sadie and opened the gateway to the Hea
bbled weakly, pushing at my arm w
er across her cracked lips; it sank in instantly, steady
, twenty yards away, and mouthed eac
that house one thing - you carry the cur
e empire's deepest secret. She didn't ask. She just nodded,
spun around to fac
foam streaming, close enough now tha
Tate wanted
ge, palm swirling with a dense
d personally
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