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.

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

no escape. The only path to

slashed

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

clattered to the ground, and

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

didn't know how many more enemies lay in wait, but an ominous sense of doom

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

"X" into the tree trunk, she then moved to

of rings. Her voice was gentle though tinged with exhaustion.

speak when a

phone from her grasp. It tumbled down the

deafening bang. The rustling noises that followed were cut off as the

upright in bed, her heart