Chapter 104

Shit. I hadn't locked the door after me.

The door cracked open.

Dread sealed my lungs closed as the door opened wider. I spun behind it. As I did, my bow and quiver slipped off my shoulders, but I caught them before they exploded noise through the room. My back hit the wall as the door opened farther. Slow, heavy footsteps entered the room.

I didn't dare move. I clutched Sasha so tightly to my chest, my arms ached. She stayed motionless, quiet, and peered between my fingers.

Then, we saw him. He strode into the room past the open door and stopped, looking around the ransacked room. Dark scruffy beard half hidden underneath a red scarf tied around his neck, a beaked nose, a large mole on top of his right eyebrow. I'd committed him to memory when he'd thrown Sasha at me in Faust's game of Catch, Kill, Release.

Blood roared beneath my flesh in blistering waves. Vengeance chewed through my veins until I shook with the urge to end him right here.

Instead, I waited.