I meet Alexus’s gaze, tears rolling from my eyes. “I will come for you,” he promises. “Trust me, Raina.” General Vexx kneels between us, glancing from Alexus to me, unsheathing the God Knife. “Somehow,” he says, “I think he’s wrong.” The last thing I see before oblivion takes me is Vexx, driving the God Knife into Alexus’s heart.
