Chapter 114 "Tangled Fates"

• Watching the gun's barrel settle itself on me, a frigid, uncompromising glare in the man's eyes, my heart thumped against my chest. My breath was shallow and quick as the world around me appeared to stop. Then, though, his voice pierced the quiet, low and threatening.
• "I said to you earlier, Mia. You cannot avoid me."
• Luke's body pressed into mine, his presence shielding, yet as he moved to attempt to save me with every last bit of power, there was trembling in his grasp. It came short. Not yet.