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“And how will I do that?” I groan and point at the wall. “My friends wouldn’t be trying to save me if I knew how to get out.”
“Death is near. Death is near.”
We have no choice but to peer over at the purple-haired girl. She’s not interested in my team’s attempt to try to collapse the wall.
No. She’s pointing to our next threat.
“Is that a… tsunami?” I whisper and try to fathom how that’s possible, but then again, a wave of lava had come here and melted the students who were fighting to escape.
You might as well throw a tsunami into the mix, right?
My reflexes kick in before I mentally process it. My hand catches Alaric’s, but my strength falls short as the man lifts me up and throws me against the wall, which electrifies me.
My scream is a sound I haven’t heard escape my lips in a very long time, but the pain pulsing through me is so overwhelming, I can’t wait for it to end.
“HISSSSS!”
“AH!” Alaric screeches in pain, and I’m dropped to the ground.
“Fuck,” I curse and am heaving for breath, my whole body quaking with a hint of shockwaves.
What in the Nephilim realms was that?
“You’re a fucking merger, aren’t you?” Alaric demands and proceeds to kick me. I swiftly curl into a ball to protect my vital organs. “C’mon battery bitch! GET ME OUT OF HERE! I won’t die like the rest of my team. I certainly won’t lose against my shithole of a brother! I’m the Alpha male! The one my father is waiting for! Change my place with Azrael, you selfish bitch!”
The kick to my head makes me hiss with anger before I shoot my hand out and send a wave of shadows that has enough force to send Alaric off his feet and a few yards in the distance.
I quickly shuffle to my feet, but I can’t stand how my body is trembling furiously.
“Shit,” I curse and inspect my body, only to notice the trail of blood dripping from my nose. “Nosebleed. Not good.”
Nosebleeds signify two things when it comes to little old me. Either I’m surging with so much foreign magic I’ve absorbed that I’m about to ‘internally’ explode, or the other rare weakness of mine is my ‘brain injury’ that never really healed and was kicked into activity.
Leaning toward the second problem.
What concerns me is that no one should know that.
That’s on my health record, and I’m sure the school administration has to know, but why does Alaric know that I have a left-brain injury that triggers nosebleeds and seizures?
I lift my gaze to the man who is staring at me with murderous eyes.
The tsunami is not only close, but the wave it invites is so massive, it can only be compared to the end of the world movies where a flood is about to consume entire cities in one swoop.
Seeing Alaric stand there with his manic expression and grinning lips is the first time I’ve feared death. Not because I don’t feel as though I can survive the threats that are about to collide with me, but because I fear what my death would ignite in those I left behind.
What would happen to my sister?
Her image comes to my mind and how we never got to confront each other. I couldn’t ask her why she decided that night to abandon me and set out on a path that didn’t include me in the equation.
Truthfully, I regret not telling her how important she really was to me or expressing just how much I loved her. She may have been Mother’s favorite, but sometimes, I felt like she was protecting me from something greater—deadlier—and I wouldn’t get the privilege of finding out what that was until our paths crossed again.
“Hisssss?”
I feel Ophira’s body as she wraps around my neck, and I realize she may perish with me as our doom is imminently ahead.
“Ophira. You need to go. I’ll… be fine.”
I won’t be fine.
