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Whatever.
I just wished he hadn’t taken so much out of me. I wanted to race toward Faith, but instead all I could do was weakly trot ahead like a broken man.
Something else was occurring too. Doubt kept nagging at the back of my head. I should’ve been less scared, but even more fear filled me. Remy was dead, but still I kept glancing over my shoulder and jumping at the smallest sounds.
Never had I been so scared in nature at night. Back in the day, I welcomed the mysterious silence. I relished in the darkness and unknown. Now I just wanted someone to shed light on it all—the woods, the snow, and these questions that kept popping in my head.
Why did he keep calling Addie Mae the woman of disguises? Why did Remy think he was protecting Faith from her own mother?
I hadn’t learned much in these past twenty-four hours, but what I gathered was two things. One, I was absolutely in love with Faith.
And two,
nothing,
not one thing around me,
was what it seemed.
Remy’s words entered my head.
“You’re with the villain.”
Chapter 19
Daniel
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ddie Mae’s words sounded from above. “Good job, sweetie.”
What the fuck?
I looked up.
Addie Mae hovered in the air above me. Those thousands of faces chanted together and swayed their heads from side to side, causing a rippling effect on her sick surface.
“You’re with the villain.”
What had Remy meant? Was he wrong and just upset with Addie Mae about his crush dying? If I’d been him, I would think she was the enemy too.
Studying Addie Mae’s form, it was hard to not see her as a villain. She looked like a monster. My skin shivered as she lowered.
Why did she disappear and not help? What’s really going on?
Addie Mae’s feet hit the ground. “I heard Faith scream and I raced her way.”
“What?” My thought process shifted back to my love. “Where is she now? Did you get her and—”
Most of those faces frowned. “The wolves won’t let me near her.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know.”
I stepped back. “This is your world. Why don’t you know?”
Wind whipped through the trees. She slithered off toward the east without beckoning me to follow.
