Maria's Point of View
I was half-dragged, half-carried across the dim docks. The world seemed to have slowed itself down. Every sound grew bigger: my own ragged breathing and farther off the ocean's hum, and my muffled kidnappers' footsteps. I became panicked by my chest, but I controlled each breath in steadiness, kept my mind wakeful, focused. If I lost consciousness now, I may not awaken.
As I struggled to do something, anything, those thoughts reached my mind. What was Kairo's last warning about? He had almost issued that last warning. Reina was working with someone—someone dreadful, someone who had been lurking in the darkness all this time. So it was important for me to find out what was going on, and even more pressing, survive.
They took me into an old storage building on the d
