Chapter 390

• Chanel was walking up the darker side of the path keeping Kirion in her sights when she felt the attacker behind her. She threw herself to the side with a scream but a foot caught her in the stomach and the wind left her lungs. She yanked her gun out but it was slapped away and spun off up the path into the darkness.
• She jumped back as best she could with no breath in her lungs and a knife plunged into her chest up near her right shoulder then a fist caught her on the cheekbone knocking her flat onto her back. Her head hit the ground hard and stars exploded in her vision. When they cleared she looked up and finally saw her assailant. A beam of street light cut across his face. Dark curly short hair, dark complexion, square face with dark eyes, a crooked nose, thin cruel lips now turned up in a sneering grin. A big man but not as big as the man she'd followed.
• Then she saw the scar.