Can’t Win Me Back

Amber's eyes reddened as she darted toward the trapdoor in The Millennium, tears streaming down her face. Remy had let her go. He actually spared her!

Didn't this prove that he was Damien? That his true nature lingered, even if his memories of the past had been lost?

Hope and excitement bubbled within her as she ran. She had to reach Alyssa immediately and share this evidence-this incredible news!

Emerging from the trapdoor, Amber navigated the tangled paths among the weeds on the mountain behind The Millennium.

Suddenly, she froze. Her breath hitched.

Beams of white light shone from all directions, focusing on her.

The cold, unyielding spotlights told her everything she was surrounded, the target of an ambush.

Amber's heart pounded in her chest. Cold sweat slicked her palms as her fingers clenched tightly around her dagger. The veins on the back of her hand throbbed with adrenaline.

in black emerged from the shadows, their flashlights cutting through the gloom like

lights focusing on her, there was no

slashed through the neck of the nearest assassin,

with desperate precision, aiming for vital points. Her unexpected ferocity startled the

to the ground, and blood

ahead without hesitation. After all, this might very well be her only

but an ominous sense of doom weighed heavily

she realized no one was immediately behind her, Amber pulled the evidence from her pocket. Hastily, she dug a hole beneath a tree

tree trunk, she then moved

Her

was just about to speak when

arm, knocking her phone from her grasp. It tumbled down the slope, out

of the line, Alyssa heard the deafening bang. The rustling noises that followed were cut off as the call

Alyssa's spine. She bolted upright in bed, her heart