Hades' Cursed Luna novel Chapter 443

Chapter 443: Lily, is that you?

Eve

The phone chirped on my lap, cleaving through the taut silence of the car.

I flinched, Victoriana glancing at me through the rearview mirror, Montague’s gaze cutting to the phone still demanding attention.

My hands shook as I quickly picked up the call, and the squad leader’s voice rang through the receiver, his tone heightened with anxiety and shock. "There is a woman with the creature. She seems violent—she won’t let us near the creature. She seems to be protecting it. But she’s injured, missing a foot, and she is not backing down."

In the background through the receiver, a piercing female voice filtered through. "Stay away from us!" she snapped, her tone feral.

"We are close by. We will be there in ten minutes," I promised. "Make sure to contain the situation. Don’t hurt her or give her a reason to hurt you. Wait for my orders. We are on our way."

I cut the call and tried not to spiral as the next few minutes to the border felt like the walk up to a guillotine. What would we find? Was the report of some nightmarish creature just after we had been educated on a specimen called a Hybrid Primus just a coincidence, or...

I shook my head as if trying to shake off the thoughts themselves. I swallowed the painful lump in my throat, gripping the leather of the car seat for dear life as we slowly approached our location. The border was waiting, and so was the creature.

The border checkpoint came into view, but it was unlike anything I’d ever seen. Our guards had formed a wide perimeter, their weapons drawn but pointed down—a defensive stance rather than offensive. Even from a distance, I could see something massive and dark sprawled on the ground, with a smaller figure crouched protectively beside it.

As we pulled closer, the scene became clearer and more terrifying. The creature was exactly as Dr. Blackwood had illustrated—crimson membrane stretched over a massive frame, those terrible bat-like wings spread across the frost-covered ground. But it wasn’t moving.

My breath caught at the overwhelming magnitude of its size, my chest constricting. Even as the Gammas surrounded it, aimed and at the ready, the sheer size of it dwarfed them all. It looked like bullets could never work.

Then what the hell could have had the capability to bring it down?

The car stopped, and we all exited the car with a shared urgency. The scene before us heightened my terror as we ran closer.

The Fenrir’s chain around my heart tugged so painfully, breathing became a hassle.

When the Gammas noticed us, they stepped closer to the creature, ensuring we were protected in case there was a reaction from the creature that could harm us.

Immediately, the same shriek rang out from within the circle of armed men.

"No, stay away from us!" She growled. "Don’t touch them." She screamed, as if the ragged words tore their way up her throat. "Don’t you dare."

I raced faster as Gammas came to meet us, handing me a weapon but I refused it as we approached the scene.

The last thing I needed at this moment was a gun that could mistakenly go off in my currently unstable, clammy hands.

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