Chapter 9
Katie
My chest tightened with fear as the sky grew darker. My body hurt like it had never hurt before. We’d run for what felt like miles, and we were still within the darkened streets of the never-ending city.
We stopped at a road and I bent over, pushing my hands into my thighs as my legs wobbled. I had the worst stitch in my side. Every breath I took was agony.
“I can’t keep running like this.” I panted, pushing myself to stand up and inhale as deeply as possible. My heart was going to give up at this rate. “I’ve barely moved from a bed in... years. I can’t...”
Shadow nodded. “I know. We need a place to hide until morning.”
He looked around us, I assumed to get his bearings and work out where we could go.
“I think I have a place. It’s about two blocks over. Can you make
