If you like music while you read, try "My Love Will Never Die" by AG and Claire Wyndham. It's what I listened to while writing this chapter!
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~ GAR ~
They had Rika.
Gar couldn't breathe. He couldn't think. He was having trouble moving.
His entire body hummed, shaking. Cold sweat trickled down his spine. He could barely hear over his pulse thumping in his ears.
He listened to Tarkyn get everyone focused and organized and he nodded and grunted and said something, he thought. But his movements were stiff and his responses robotic.
They had Rika.
He left her alone. She was bleeding and she was sad, and he left her.
A shudder rocked through him. Tarkyn snapped something… an order. He followed it, followed the male and his sister and Aaryn and others… he could do as he was told. But he couldn't think, and in that moment he didn't think he could have issued an order to save his life.
