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Not their cheers.
I dropped the sword and turned to Moni.
That little gun now lay on the ground. Somewhere between the sword singing and my cutting off his head, she’d dropped it.
Sighing, I took Moni in my arms and her warmth enveloped me. “It’s over. . .”
She cried against me. “You fucking did it, baby.”
“No.” My legs began to lose balance. I did my best to keep up. “Wedid it.”
And then darkness swallowed me whole.
Chapter thirty-five
The Poison Within
Moni
Lei collapsed against me with his arms locked around my waist.
The force was unexpected and we both tumbled to the ground in a heap. My body cushioned his fall and I could feel the frantic beat of his heart against my chest.
I looked down at him. “Baby!”
With his eyes squeezed shut and his expression twisted in agony, he gasped for air as if each breath was a struggle.
“No. No. Baby, are you okay?” I looked up and yelled. “Help! Somebody help right now!”
Thankfully, someone roared back. “The Master Healer is coming!”
Hurry.
Meanwhile, the crows that had landed near Leo earlier began to creep closer to him.
Their eyes glinted.
Then, one bold crow hopped forward, clicking its talons against the blood-soaked ground. It let out a single sharp caw before plunging its beak into Leo's lifeless body.
I parted my lips.
Next, the others followed, descending on his corpse and tearing into his flesh. Those beaks pierced his chest and ripped his pants away.
Sickening squelches rose in the air.
Feathers flew in a frenzy, some sticking to the gore as the crows wrestled over strips of raw meat.
The only part of Leo untouched was his severed head, lying a few feet away, still staring blankly into the void. It remained pristine amidst the carnage, almost as though the crows refused to touch it.
But his body—they ravaged it.
I looked back at my baby.
These black lines appeared at his temples. They were faint etchings of ink bleeding into paper.
What the fuck is this?
The thin streaks branched outward, crawling across his golden skin like veins of liquid shadow.
