Darius POV
I blinked my eyes rapidly against the blinding light from the explosion and touched my body to check I was still in one piece. The deafening noise was still ringing in my ears from the powerful bomb that Arius summoned with his magic and launched at the last remaining Elders and that bizarre creature. Surprisingly, I find myself unharmed and look around at the rest of our group who are equally as shaken but alive.
Then my heart plummets.
“MADELINE!” Arius' desperate voice is full of urgency and panic as he runs to her crumbled body on the floor. I push passed the vampire warriors and see him cradling her to his chest.
“Madeline?” he shouts urgently and my eyes revert down to an open wound on her stomach that was oozing with blood. I look at Arius' face and even though his
