Chapter 119

Levi

My eyes go wide. My heart stops beating for what seems like an entire minute. Everything that seemed to happen so fast just earlier are now sputtering to a slow-motion version of events that’s making sure I get to see everything that happens.

It’s like a play by play recount of events. One moment, I was preparing to get hit by a silver bullet. But then, Arya comes out of nowhere and blocks the shot from me. I see the small ball of metal leave the muzzle of the gun and zip right toward her, hitting her squarely in the chest and throwing her back against me.

I catch her and she looks at me, her eyes watering. There’s a single spot of red in her chest, a bloodstain on her uniform. It’s getting bigger and bigger by the moment as she starts to bleed out, and I just go numb inside.

She tries to speak but the effort seems to be too much.

However, I hear her in my head.

“Ask him where the girls are,” she says. “Get the answer out of him no matter what. Don’t worry about me.”

I understand