Zara’s POV
The spear came for my heart.
There was no time to think.
No time to move.
No time even to scream.
Blue runes blazed along the shaft as it tore through smoke and moonlight, spinning so fast the air shrieked around it. Every instinct in me froze.
Then Greyson roared my name.
“ZARA!”
The world exploded.
A black shape slammed into me from the side.
I hit the ground hard, breath ripped from my lungs, dirt and blood filling my mouth. Something heavy shielded my body as the spear struck stone where I had stood.
The impact cracked the earth.
Ice burst outward in jagged veins.
For a second I couldn’t hear anything.
Then sound rushed back all at once.
Screams.
Steel.
Howls.
Greyson.
He lay half over me in human form, blood pouring from his shoulder.
The spear had not m
