Eliana felt a thunderous blow to the back of her head, and she felt herself falling heavily onto the river rocks. In her last moment of consciousness, she lifted her eyes to glare hatefully at Chloe standing in front of her.

This woman had become so deranged that she'd try to kill her. Eliana refused to accept this. She tried to get her hands under her and stand up. But her head hurt so badly that she couldn't get up or even move at all. Now she could feel the blood slowly ...