Chapter One Hundred and Sixty Six

CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX

His tone is so dismissive that it takes me aback, “Y-You do?”

I move my hand only to gasp out in shock and pain.

My forearms. They’re burning!

“You have been harmed,” The child’s voice is filled with a vicious anger, one I can’t focus on at the moment.

Both my forearms are throbbing in unimaginable pain and I swallow a sob, “Why is it hurting here? I’m dreaming. It shouldn’t-”

My voice cuts off when I hear the cracking thunder sound, “What-”

The sky is a pitch black and when my eyes swivel towards the child before me, his own eyes are flashing in ruthless fury, “They will pay in blood.”

I try to speak, to give him some information to find me but my voice is not working. It takes me a heartbeat to realize that my hands are fading.

I’m waking up.

My mouth is moving but nothing is coming out.

My eyes fly open to a searing pain in my lower abdomen just as something hard makes contact with it again.