Chapter 181: The Warrior's Blade

“Buttercup’s been stabbed,” Rhychard said as he shoved his cell phone in his back pocket. “Renny found her downtown collapsed on the sidewalk and helped get her to the hospital. Buttercup’s in surgery now.” He felt guilty with the relief of Renny’s safety flooding through him while his friend was in the operating room, fighting for her life. Buttercup had bore the brunt of the wrath of the Unseelie ever since Pastor Adrian Michaels dragged her pimp, Jerome Williams, into the mess with Vargas. She had been beaten, attacked, kidnapped, and now stabbed. How she kept her sanity, Rhychard didn’t know. “I’ve got to get to the hospital.”

“And I need to find the aswang,” Halafarin said, his intense stare still fixed on Trace.

“You’re not touching her,” Trace said, just as adamant and determined as the elf.