"I'd rip the sky apart before I ever let you hit the ground."
James's roar echoed through the roaring wind as his fingers locked around my wrist like a vice of pure iron, stopping my descent into the dark abyss just as my body slipped over the balcony's shattered edge.
"Hold on to me!" I shrieked, the rain stinging my eyes as my heels dangled over a five-hundred-foot drop into the jagged rocks of Sector One. "James, please!"
"I've got you," James growled, his veins bulging black along his arms as the Alpha blood inside him fought against the deafening shockwave frequency vibrating through the chamber behind him. "I will never let you go!"
With a brutal heave that made his muscles tear, James yanked me upward, dragging my soaked body over the broken stone balustrade and slamming me safe
