Chapter Thirty-Five
Milo
"Those who follow me call me Salvador. I am their savior." Victor licked his lips and smiled. "You have the Milagro. I know the power it holds. I know how it can save, and only I know how to use it. Join me, and you, too, can be called Salvador."
He could feel my urge to kill him.
"It won't serve you well, this anger toward me. Kill me, and you kill her," he said, stepping aside to reveal Clara sitting on the ground behind his large black wings. Her eyes were wet and weary.
My entire body seized when I saw her. "Clara!" I called out, but then I hesitated, knowing Victor had tricked me before. I blinked to clear my mind and my eyes. Was this real? And if so, how could it be? I had witnessed my grandfather's death and, with that, believed she was gone, too. Was
