CHAPTER 40
Ellie
My face was still stinging from the claws Stone had raked across me once again, right before she dug them into the open flesh at the base of my neck once she realized the calvary had come. I hated myself for it, but I hadn’t been able to hold back the scream that echoed in the walls around me, the pain forcing it from my mouth.
It made it worse that I hadn’t seen her coming in the darkness, with no time to steel myself, but I should have expected it when I heard the hatred in her voice. She’d been spewing curses on the Cross name, and then mine, accusing me of being the cause for all of her troubles. The reason they had come.
It had been a few minutes since her assault, but I was still trying to steady my ragged breathing, unsure of how much more pain I could take a
