SERAPHINA
My heart gave a violent lurch.
For a moment, I couldn’t breathe. I stared at Finn, still crouched under his shadow, but my thoughts had already spiraled far from this bloody clearing.
Blind. Finn was blind.
Ronan stilled too. Even amidst the chaos, he listened.
“No…” I whispered, as if denial alone could reverse what I’d just heard. “How could you go blind? That’s impossible.” Panic flared in my chest as I slid closer, needing to see his pale, unfocused eyes for myself.
Before Finn could answer, a guttural growl sliced through the air. I snapped my head toward the noise, just in time to see Ronan’s black wolf form leap over us. His massive body collided mid-air with a charging flesh-eater. The crack of breaking bones rang out as blood splattered across the dry ground.
They
