Chapter 153

OPHELIA 59 MINUTES BEFORE THE LIGHT GOES OUT Ophelia, do not leave Anikêtos’s side! Alexandros warns, and I assure him I won’t. I have no intention of straying far from the huge black dragon, especially now that Alexandros is no longer at my side. Without Alexandros and the boys, I feel safer with Ani and Elpis than with anyone else. The warlocks have created force fields that deflect Dragonfyre, but I’m able to channel enough power to hold back any of the vampires and warlocks who draw too near while taking down the force fields one by one. Cadence stands to my left and Enora on my right, chanting spells that counteract the warlocks’ dark magic. The vampires and wolves who remained, including Sienna and Osiris, have fanned out in front and are picking off Giorgios’s army and holding the line. The system is working, and although we’ve lost two vampires and a wolf—a fact which I cannot give too much consideration to right now because the pain would be debilitating—we’re winning. Giorgio