Adam's words hung in the air, and Kiera could only stare at him, her golden eyes wide with disbelief. He claimed he wasn't an angel, yet everything he did screamed otherwise.
He had no reason to save them, no obligation to help. And yet, he had stepped in without hesitation. If not for him, she and her sister would have been nothing more than corpses, lost to the Antmen's merciless attack on the two of them.
They had survived, and that alone was a miracle.
But survival came at a cost.
The pain of losing everything...her home, her people...hit her like a blade to the heart.
She was sure, given their village's current situation, that the invasion of the Antmen army that attacked them, that they were as good as dead.
She had no time to grieve before, but now, in the stillness of the aftermath, it consumed her. A shudder ran through her body as silent sobs wracked her frame. Slowly, her head lowered until her forehead touched the ground.
She had nothing left.
