(Desmond POV)
It was too late to react when I noticed the disappearance of one of my enemies and I felt a sense of danger behind me, in the next instant I felt what I suppose was a sword piercing the side of my torso, I was unlucky enough that it happened by chance The sword passed through one of the joints of my armor so it did not need to pass through it to hurt myself, I also saw the tip of the sword protrude from the body of the girl I was holding hostage.
For a second I thought that the idiot who carried out the sneak attack ruined it by hurting his partner, but when I heard their leader blatantly confess that he planned to get rid of her by not sleeping with him, I realized what kind of scum he was dealing with and how unfortunate the girl was.
