Lilith pov

“What are you most afraid of, Lilith?”

If anyone asked me that question, I already had an answer.

I wouldn’t even need to think about it.

It wasn’t death.

It wasn’t sickness.

It wasn’t pain.

It was helplessness.

What terrified me the most was the feeling of helplessness. The feeling of standing there and watching the people I loved suffer while being unable to do anything. Unable to protect them. Unable to save them.

The feeling of being weak.

A scream ripped from my throat.

Raw rage surged violently through every vein in my body as I launched myself at Samuel without hesitation, the ground beneath my feet...