When Samuel's body hit the ground with a sickening thud, a pool of blood quickly forming beneath him, his consciousness briefly cleared.

His eyes, glazed and unfocused, stubbornly fixed on the street across from him.

There was no Eliana there.

She wasn't there.

It had been another hallucination

Just like every sleepless night when he'd reached out to touch her, only to find emptiness where she should have been.

He could not ...