The second guard lets Eve go to focus on me. I kick him in the stomach and am about to crack hiskneecap backward when Edgar claps his hands the way he has all week long. I turn and see him withhis arm around Eve’s throat.
“Touch anyone else, and I’ll kill her,” he says.
Just to be sure I know he is serious, he pulls a concealed weapon from inside his jacket.
I stumble away from the guard and back into the crowd. They step back to form a large circle aroundme.
I only realize when I reach up to wipe the sweat from my forehead that my mask is gone. It is lying onthe floor near the bloody guard. It must have fallen off during the fight.
Edgar instructs the bloody guard to call more soldiers to keep watch over the room and then leadsEve towards the entrance hall. I move to follow, but thre
