Chapter 73

CLAUDIA. Hyperion lifts me in his arms, racing toward the door in a speed I never would have expected from him. I hold onto him tightly, turning around to see Benjamin racing toward us too. “I thought you were just going for a stroll,” he teases, breathing hard as he follows us. He’s not even running, and it feels like he knows we’re not going to make it anywhere. I vaguely wonder if there is something waiting for us out there, something that would stop us completely. “That man has been wanting to fuck you, Claudia. Are you really going to choose to be alone with him?” Tears continue to run down Hyperion’s face. The door is only a couple of feet away now, and I can almost feel us bursting through it, but then I see something flash against the door. Reflected light. I whip around to see where it’s from, and a scream gets stuck in my throat when I see that Benjamin just drew a knife from his coat. He lifts it into the air, holding it by the tip of the blade, then he throws. The knif