Fuck, I could feel the warm fluid that had begun to rush from a growing pain in my neck. My feeble hands clutched Killian's in a pathetic attempt to get him away from me. But his hold never budged.

"K-Killian, Killian!" I screamed, holding onto him tightly as I felt my feet pulling from the earth. "Killian," I tried to call again, but it seemed the words were stuck in my throat or somewhere within the walls of my mind.

My life was slowly escaping, but at the same ...