Chapter 33
‘What have you done?’
My eyes snapped open, widening when I saw the blade inches away from my neck. Even more disturbing was the way the dark light reached out to envelop me. No longer blinding in intensity, it had softened as it moved over me.
I did not risk moving anything but my eyes as the dark light flowed behind me. I shivered as it caressed my wings, its touch strangely soothing as it stroked the injury I’d sustained while fleeing Cade.
The Grim Reaper’s gaze followed the movement of the dark light as it left my wings and returned to the blade of his scythe. He stretched out a skeletal hand, almost as if he wanted to touch my silver wings himself. The hand withdrew and he drew himself up to his full height.
‘What is this trickery?’ He shook the scythe in my face. ‘Te
