Chapter 350

We crashed into the earth in a tangle of limbs, her gurgling breaths filling the tense silence between us. Luckily, we landed on the soft grass tucked between two homes. Fueled by the adrenaline surging through me—and the awareness of how close death was—I scrambled away from Marinella. Her claws, unnervingly long and razor-sharp like needles, fell limp as they slipped from my torn flesh.