I faded in and out of consciousness. With each stride Ash gave, a wave of blinding pain washed over me, and I shuddered through it. Ash’s shirt was soaked with blood, and his grim expression never left his face.
“Can’t…we stop?” I murmur, somewhat breathlessly.
Ash took a big leap over something big on the ground. I gritted my teeth as that tortuous pain came again.
“We can’t, Selina,” was all he said.
My name sounded strange coming from his mouth. He never spoke to me with my first name. Only my middle.
He wasn’t just tired, I realized as I glanced at his tensed mouth, drawn eyebrows, and hardened eyes. Ash was angry.
When we finally, finally arrived back at home, I was placed in a bed almost immediately, Ash got his mother and she removed the bullets and wrapped bandages around my torso.
Lucky, she was saying. I was lucky.
Then she led Ash out of the room, and I was left to sleep peacefully.
When I woke again, it was to the sound of arguing.
“She almost got us both killed!” I recognized Ash’s voice.
“My Ash, it was her first mission. I have no doubt she will improve.” his mother reassured him.
“And how many of us will die before then?!”
“Watch your mouth.” Shadow snapped.
I practically heard the tension from just outside my door. I heard Ash stomp away. Guilt sprung. Ash and Shadow’s relationship was already complicated. Adding an escape from death today didn’t help that.
When was I going to finally not be the reason for everything that goes wrong?
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