LJ’s POV
We felt ourselves sink to our knees, our vision slowly faded from ordinary colors to red. The night light took on a crimson hue and everything around us seemed to be clad in a rogue texture.
Our body was still strangely numb. Our mate was in our arms, still and unmoving. Her heart wasn’t beating and there was no breath on her lips. Her eyes were closed and her expression was contorted in pain. Frozen like that. Her blood flowed between our fingers, staining our clothes with more red…
The air is filled with the scent of humans, guns, cars, and – of course – blood.
Our mate’s blood!
In the end, we weren’t enough. Not fast enough. Or strong enough. All this power and we still weren’t enough. What did it matter being the most powerful creature on the planet if you couldn’t save t
