Chapter 160

GIDEON

She finally slipped under. My girl. My fighter. Breathing ragged against my chest, her fists tangled in my shirt like if she let go she’d drop straight into the pit her mother left behind.

I didn’t move. Didn’t dare. One wrong shift, and the demons would come dragging her back into the blood. Not on my watch. Not while I had breath in me. So I sat there in the dark, one hand buried in her