November 3rd

After that all hell broke loose. Haden's men kept emerging out of the trees, snarling and growling until they were completely surrounding the truck. Leo's men fought them hard and with more force than I could ever imagine but they were vastly outnumbered and I could only see this going one way.

"Blair, call for back up," Leo ordered, his face creased with worry as he jumped off the truck and dragged me by my wrist with him.

He fought through what had become a battlefield, defending us both from approaching attackers. One he kicked in the stomach so hard that he flew back and hit a tree, his body instantly turning limp, another he slashed across the throat with a knife, blood spurting everywhere.

I took a deep breath in and clenched my jaw unable to process the amount of violence occurring around me.

"In a minute, when the coast is clear," he said pulling me behind a tree but keeping his eyes scanning all around us. "I'm going to ask you to run and you will run as fast as you can South for as far as you can without looking back, understand?"

I hesitated for a mere second, "I said do you understand?" He asked shaking my shoulders.

I nodded and swallowed, "Y-yes."

"Okay," he replied in a softer tone. He then quickly kissed my lips and looked around once more. "Go."

This time I didn't hesitate and raced away from my mate and the relative safety he provided. I had no idea where I was or where I was going. I just had to follow Leo's order to simply run South.

Obeying Leo's commands was something I'd always struggled with. Sometimes I had good reasons, sometimes it was just for the sake of it. But when I spotted Mateo struggling with an Ayas warrior pinning him to the ground as he desperately tried to keep the blade of a sharp knife away from his throat, it was certainly a good reason.

I gripped the knife Leo had given me and took a few deep breaths. But with Mateo getting closer and closer to decapitation, I had little time to prepare myself and just lurched forward and before the Ayas soldier could see me coming, delved the so-called magical knife into his back.

I nearly vomited as blood began to spurt out but my shock of what had just happened made doing anything but standing dumbstruck impossible. I was sure I had seen the knife glow for a short second but perhaps even more peculiarly, the man had completely frozen and dropped to the floor like a dead leaf. He still seemed very much alive yet unable to move in any way.

Mateo scrambled out from underneath the limp body and stared down with as much confusion as me.

"Did I...kill him?" I asked.

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