The sun was going down over the horizon, painting the sky in shades of orange and red. Beneath it, a figure ran in a blur past streets and hidden alleyways, carefully avoiding people.
Lucien.
His feet barely touched the ground as he moved with inhuman speed, sticking to the shadows and empty paths. His mind was set on one thing only - Scarlett. He had to get to her. After Electra had told him about Jacob and some vampires moving to the human world while he was stuck in the council, his mind had been uneasy. He couldn't focus on anything else.
"Damn it all," he muttered under his breath, leaping over a fence without breaking stride. "If anything happens to her..."
He swore deep down that if anything happened to her, he would kill Ezra himself. He had had enough of his elder brother's to
