A piercing scream tore from Aliana's lips the moment her memories forced her to witness the final horror.
Jacob's body, completely engulfed in shadows before...
She saw her own hand slowly lift in front of her, and then...
Splatter!
All she saw was a gruesome spray of blood and tiny fragments of flesh flying through the air until everything was swallowed by darkness.
Aliana's eyes remained clamped shut, a violent tremor racking her frame as the brutal truth of that night finally broke through the surface.
Shock was a word far too small to describe the sheer trauma devastating her mind.
She was so consumed by those resurfacing memories that she didn't even realise that, while she kept her face buried against Gavriel's chest, the same shadowy darkness that had engulfed Jacob was now swirling violently around the two of them, as though it were bleeding out of her memories and manifesting into reality.
