Leila’s POV:
Silence. That’s what follows Amber’s sudden arrival. A thick, cloying silence that seems to eat up the air in the room until I’m left struggling to breathe, even with her only being a holographic projection. One look at her and I’m mentally transported back to the last time we were face to face and how she used the four of us to try and end each other in that disused warehouse last round. That same weakness filled me and rendered me mute.
But I wasn’t the only one. We’d all reacted the same way upon her arrival, drifting together to make a larger group of people all terrified by the woman who stood in front of us like I don’t think any of them had been before. I know I certainly hadn’t with the exceptions of Angel and the pack before Ash saved me. Like me Rosa’s trembling an
