Aiden was waiting for that moment when a searing pain tears him and he takes his last breath. When his tender neck gets ripped under the beasts canines and his blood gets spilled along with thousands of others.
He waited.
Seconds pass.
No sound was audible. And Aiden opens his palms to suddenly feel an aura of fear and vulnerability hit him in full intensity.
It wasn't his aura. Saph's aura was out of question. Then.. It could only belong to...
He snaps open his eyes and what he saw made his fearful eyes widen in shock. The shadow, the beast was still hovering over him. But he couldn't move.
Not even an inch.
Unknown tree branches have uprooted from under the ground and were tightly wrapped around Caleb's frame like a snake swathing around its prey. One thick branch was coiled aroun
