Angel didn’t talk to me as I sobbed against his chest. Instead, he just rubbed my back as we soared away from the scene of battle. A chasm had opened up inside of me and I didn’t know how to deal with it. I was never going to be the same again. At some point, I couldn’t even cry anymore and just lie there shaking. “How could you?” I whispered when I could finally form words again.
“It had to be done, Hazel. I warned you that we weren’t ready. Now your pawn is lost as is your fodder, we have to get away and regroup until Tydeus can find us.”
I wanted to push away from him but my body wasn’t obeying any commands I gave it. “We left them all, Quinn, Axel, Tuff, Ivy, they’re all going to die.”
“Ivy made her decision, nothing I could do would persuade her differently.”
“And what about Quinn
