Here's the next chapter! Hope it is okay, as I wrote it fast to get it up today. Again, it's from JUNE'S POINT OF VIEW, if you couldn't tell by the title of June. So this is about it, hope you enjoy and thanks for reviewing and following :)

June

Ms. Iparis,

It has come to my attention that you disobeyed my direct orders about trying to follow our trail. You were never extremely good at following orders in the first place, now were you? I should have come to expect nothing more from a traitor. If you wish to play this kind of game, I suggest that you choose your pawns carefully. You never know who might disappear next.

~Anden

I grip the note in my hands, breathing slowly to try and calm myself down.

Anden obviously doesn't want me following him, he's made that much clear. But what about the pawns?

"Tess and Eden," I think to myself as a wave of horror rushes over me. I won't have time to make the trek back to the city to warn them. What else can I do?

My thoughts are stopped short when I notice a red light pointing at the wall next to me. Not a light, a laser. I follow the laser back up and see a small black dot, perched on top of a building.

"Idiot, using a laser," I think to myself. I run out the back of the alley just as the shot comes, making nice size hole in the wall where I was standing.

I hear cars pulling up and shouting voices, but I keep running, my feet splashing in puddles of garbage and sewer water. How long is this alley?

I get my answer soon enough. It abruptly ends in a ten foot high wall. I turn back quickly and see the men closing in, their feet thundering on the alley floor.

I stop and notice a garbage bin. Taking a running start, I leap up onto it, trying to stay light on my feet, grateful for my small size. I grab onto the wall and hoist myself up, my arms shaking slightly from the sudden need to exert myself. I sit on top of the wall and look down. The men have just reached the wall and are now pointing their guns up at where I sit.

On the other side of the wall, there is nothing to break my fall, so I just bend my knew and jump as the bullets whizz by my head. I land and tuck my body into a roll, but I miscalculate the distance at my back slams into the corner of another bin. Wincing, I stand up and look at the wall.

I can hear the men on the other side trying to get up the same way I did, but they are too heavy and the trash bin breaks under them. They must try lifting each other up, because soon part of a head pops up from behind the wall and I take off running again, out towards the street.

My lungs burn and I think I must've cracked a rib. But that doesn't matter. I have to find some place safe to call Eden and Tess. I finally get out of the alley, on the opposite side of the street where I was before. No sign of any more of Anden's men. At least, not yet.

I start walking as quickly as my chest will allow it, pushing past people to find a place with a phone. As I push past one young woman, she says, "hey!" It's not the comment that gets me, but the voice. I turn around to see an angry Tess looking at me.

"If you're going ti barge through the streets, at least don't run into your friends!" she exclaims with a smile on her face. She then wraps me in a hug, but pulls away to notice the distressed look on my face.

"What's wrong?" she asks. I grip my chest harder, trying to ease the pain.

"Do you have somewhere we could go? Also, I need to talk to Eden," I reply.

"What's going on?"

I see a large group of Anden's men combing along the sides of the street trying to look inconspicuous. That's hard when they're all wearing black with visible guns. "Stay here any longer and you'll find out first-hand," I say.

She gets the message and hooks one arm around my shoulders, supporting me. We both try to walk fast to escape the incoming onslaught of men, but this pace won't last long.

"I hope your place is close by," I mention. All she does is smile and keep supporting me.

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As always, new chapter in a few days, aiming for Thursday or Friday, cuz I'm SUPER busy this week.