Amelia POV

The ambush broke apart the moment Asher stepped out of the trees.

The driver saw him too.

And the panic snapped through him like lightning.

He stopped the chariot at once before he stepped down. The man bolted into the bushes, breath tearing from his lungs. I barely had time to shout before the forest swallowed him whole.

He didn’t get far.

A blur of grey launched from the shadows.

There was a wet sound, the sound of a sharp cut and then a scream that tore ...