Chapter 57

“How fucking dare you!”

Those are the last words I hear before the fear starts to consume me as Richard, the Dick, lunges for me.

Sure, Adeline and I have been training to defeat opponents bigger than me, but we’ve never put it into practice.

I raise my hands to my face in a defensive position, knowing I’m going to lose, but at least I won’t lose by surrendering, not with all these people watching. I wait for the blows to come.

But they never do. Before Dick could even touch me, two of Dante’s soldiers, one of them being Pat—I never knew he’d been here—an