GRACE POV
We were running like possessed men.
Actually, scratch that, we were running like three absolutely unhinged idiots who had somehow found themselves trapped inside the belly of a mountain with a screaming demon-worm chasing us.
Darkness swallowed everything.
Shadows lunged across the walls.
The ground shook beneath our feet.
And that thing, that enormous, shrieking, ancient-as-f**k thing, was right behind us.
Correction:
Chasing us.
Its scream ricocheted through the cave like the world’s largest microphone had suddenly exploded. The vibration ripped through my bones, turning my spine into an icicle. Hakira howled inside my skull, pushing forward, claws scraping at the inside of my consciousness as if she could tear her way out.
‘Fight!’ she roared. ‘Stand and fight!’
“Fi
