POV: Maya

Time fractured into slow motion. Nathan's finger squeezed the trigger. I saw it happening, saw the mechanism engage, saw the hammer fall. The muzzle flashed bright in the darkness.

The bullet left the barrel. Silver. Deadly. Aimed directly between my eyes. I couldn't move. The warriors still held me down, pinning my body to the blood-soaked snow. I could only watch death come for me at nine hundred feet per second.

Then something massive slammed into me from the side.The silver ...