I trotted over to Liam despite exhaustion overriding me.
He laid still.
His heart beat fading.
My heart sank.
A stirring cry rose to the sky shattering the silence that now pervaded the field where pandemonium once reigned. My soul was in agony as I watched his bruised and bloody body.
The battle was over, but a war raged in my troubled mind.
The tally of those who had been slain, yet to be decided, but my heart only accounted for one, my beloved Liam.
Snuggling into his chest, I wept bitterly. For a while, the world ceased to exist, until a slight earthen tremble alerted me, someone was approaching, but I didn’t even have the strength to raise my tear stained eyes.
The hand reached out and touched my shoulders. “Alli?”
Sobs were my only reply.
“Honey!” The same voice call
