Chapter 46
Igor crouched behind the wagon, a pile of canvas bundles at his feet. A gleaming black handgun bigger than Leo had ever seen pointed straight at his head.
The dog must have watched Igor approaching, doing her best to make sure he knew where Maria was. Where the undead thing that so badly wanted Sanda's blood hid right this second.
"Where is Sanda?" Igor said, his voice strained and tight. "Have you found it?"
Leo's brain seemed to split then, to break into two halves that would never communicate again.
He had to save Maria.
He had to make sure she didn't get any stronger, no matter what that cost him.
A whisper of motion from the shadows behind him.
"Leo." Igor stepped forward, the massive barrel of the gun still locked on target. "Have you betrayed me? Have you betrayed
