Chapter74

#Chapter74

Greater Good

Sapphire Nightborne

Alissa continued to cough, hunching over as though she was trying to purge her lungs from her body. My hand began to reach out for her when I was slammed against the stone wall. Grey eyes, filled with disappointment and betrayal, stared down at me with such an intensity that I could almost feel my skin burn. The guards and Jared had let Xander go, and he was pinning my body to the wall, preventing me from touching Alissa.

/"What have you done, Sapphire? How could you do this to them, to me?/"

/"Xander, I—/"

He continued to berate me, stuttering over his words in anger, before I told him to look at Alissa. She was still coughing, but not as badly as before... in other words, she was fine. He stopped his verbal assault, chest heaving, before turning back to me with a confused look on his face.

/"How?/"