Katherine
Xenia and I look at one another when we hear the screams and heavy footfalls above us. We shouldn’t allow them to fight our battles, but if I die, then the guild dies with me. They’ve found us; somehow, they f*****g found us, and if they know we’re down here, then we’re dead.
“We need to make him understand that you didn’t fire that shot,” Xenia whispers, pacing the floor on her sprained ankle.
I shake my head. “What good will that do? She died with one of our bullets in her heart, Xen; in his eyes, I might as well have fired it,” I say, thinking back to how Gabriel’s eyes were blazing with hurt and anger.
“I won’t let anything happen to you, okay? I promised your father that I would always be at your back looking out for you,” she says.
Wrapping my arms around her, I hold
