I felt it in my bones before I saw him.
The moon captured his hair, making it look like a blend of brown and silver. His eyes scorched like two pools of heated steel, drilling holes through me as he moved towards me.
‘What do you want now, Aurelius?’ I thought to myself.
Was this part of his twisted plan? Why go through the stress of hiring me if he was just going to finish her off himself? Was he even here for her… or me?
I stilled my advances on Ryanna. Gauging what he would do next he halted his approach, just beyond the edge of the trees.
His presence swelled, pressing on me with an almost physical force. Slowing not just my body, but my mind as well. Ryanna must have felt it, too.
It was almost ironic really. The hunter became the hunted. With him here, my faith was all but ce
