𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐈𝐍 || 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲

Chapter 38 * Life For A Life *

Without even a warning, Jack grabbed my hand and pulled me along behind him through the city. We ran and ran until finally we ended up at Jane's shop.

"Jane! Jane! Jane, you have to help!" Jack called out frantically.

"What happened?" she asked immediately, walking over to us.

"The Wizard and his men have Langwidere," he told her solemnly.

"The Wizard is here?" Jane asked, unbelieving.

"If the soldiers don't give up their guns, he's going to execute her,"

"And just how is this our problem?" I piped up, hands planted firmly on my hips.

Jack frowned, glacing over at me.

"Dawn, she saved my life! I can't just leave her to die like this," he told me, gritting his teeth in annoyance at my outburst.

I scoffed, arching my eyebrows in defiance.

"Jane saved you, Jack. Not Langwidere. She wasn't the one who spent countless hours re-building you!"

"And Langwidere was the one who paid for the metal for her to do it!" he shot back.

I bit down hard on my tongue so another snarky comment wouldn't shoot out of my mouth. All of a sudden, Jane walked out of the shop, Jack and I calling after her. We sat in silence then as we waited, neither of us speaking to the other. I had nothing to say to him right now anyway since he was being a world-class jerk. It was a couple of hours later when Jane returned, striding through the front door. Her normally lively and hopeful eyes were downcast and I knew she hadn't succeeded in her endeavors.

"He can't be stopped," she told us quietly, "He'll destroy everything for those guns,"

"Then make me the gun," Jack suddenly spoke up.

My brown eyes snapped to his, shocked at his words.

"Jack, what are you saying?! That's insane!" I told him.

His misty-gray eyes looked back at me but I knew I couldn't change his mind now that it was made.