Chapter:- 54

Amelia gasped and trembled, unable to keep a few tears from escaping. The agony faded away slowly, leaving behind a terrible numb hole. Alex... Was he still there at the other end of their connection? Amelia couldn't tell, couldn't focus enough to reach out, couldn't...

"Amelia!" How long had Anna and the others been calling out her name? She'd placed a hand on her shoulder and slowly she became aware of the fact that she was on her knees on the ground. (She still couldn't stop trembling.) "What the hell is going on?"

As her brother seemed to understand. Horror dawned in the his eyes. "Amelia... Is he...?" The man couldn't bring himself to finish.

Amelia gulped laboriously and tasted bile. It was a surprise she hadn't thrown up yet. "I... I don't know. I don't know." She didn't know and it gnawed at her like no one could. Always a soldier, Amelia pushed herself up. "We have to keep going. We have to hurry." She refused to give up, refused to accept the possibility that...

Anna squeeze