Lina's POV
For one dizzy second I couldn't breathe. The man who'd shattered me.
The boy I'd loved for eleven years, who'd broken me on a bet and left me in pieces. Here. Now. Putting his own body between me and death.
I didn't have time to hate him.
Cipher yanked the wheel and swung in behind his truck as he gunned it, weaving, blocking, buying us seconds we shouldn't have had. His voice crackled through my rolled-down window over the roar of engines.
"He gave the order, Lina." His words were ragged, torn out of him. "Damon. If they can't take you alive, they take you dead. All of us. He said he'd send the whole road into the sea before he lets Adrian keep you."
My blood turned to ice.
I believed that Jasper wouldn't hurt me. Whatever else he'd done, whatever coward'
