LILYS POV
The smell of blood hit me, forcefully. I acted quickly, shoving Dimitri away from me towards the hall.
"Go! Find Ben and Killian and bring them back!"
He nodded, running away through the bushes. I took a second to acknowledge that he was actually trusting me this time. Then I was running in the opposite direction, kicking off my heels into the bushes so they wouldn't slow me down. The garden abruptly ended, giving way to a spacious field of grass. The forest lay beyond, dark with looming shadows. I hardly paid attention though, as I followed my nose to the body lying on the ground. Her eyes were wide and staring, but seeing nothing. her once ash blonde hair was matted with the blood that pooled from her grotesquely slashed neck. Her midsection has also been ripped open, intest
