MARIETTA
“Mercenaries!”
My heart pounded in my chest as four of them headed straight for Milan with their swords drawn and he quickly shoved me away from him just before one of their swords clashed against his. I managed to stop myself from falling after stumbling away from him and saw that an equal number of men had come out of the forest on the right and were now attacking Ruth who was doing his best to keep them at bay.
“Oh, for f**k's sake. This isn't a fair fight!” Ruth announced as the sound of sword clashing against sword filled the air and my heart threatened to beat out of my chest because it didn’t seem like this was a fight they could win. I desperately wanted to do something to help but there was nothing I could do and even if there was a sword lying around, I didn’t know ho
