Chapter 68

ACHILLES. All my instincts kick in. I try to dodge and throw myself backward but there’s no space for me to move. Everything seems to happen in slow motion. I try to step back, but my back hits the wall. The Rogue’s mouth is wide open, so much so that I can see her gullet from this angle. It looks like she’s not just going to bite my neck. It seems that she wants to decapitate me. Either way, I slide down, crouching close to the floor, watching as she follows my movements. Her mouth is only a couple of inches away from me now. I can feel her hot breath on my skin. I can almost feel the pain of her teeth sinking into me, breaking through muscles and bone… But it doesn’t come. Instead, the female Rogue starts to twitch, her whole body jerking as though she just received a big electrical shock. She lets out a scream that sounds very nearly human, staggering away from me and grabbing at her throat as though she accidentally swallowed something she shouldn’t have. I thought that I man