Chapter Forty-Six
Mauri POV
The first thing I notice is the splitting pain in my brain that feels like I was stabbed with an ice pick and somehow survived. I grab my head where the pain is the worst and gasp when I discover a thick sticky wetness matting my hair to my skull. The smell hits me next, metallic mixed with a strange sweetness.
My blood.
The red light is blinding as my eyes pop open, finally remembering what had happened. Lilith tricked me, that stupid b***h. Then she hit me over the head with a rock. I don’t remember anything past that… but why was I with Lilith?
The events come barreling back as the rest of the evening unfolds in my mind, I grow sick to my stomach. Someone attacked River.
Because of me.
Frantically I search my surroundings and become very aware o
