Chapter 42

Xander put an arm over her shoulders. "Let's go on our way."

She shrugged him off for the hundredth time. "If you do that again, you lose a finger," she said, before going to Ayo and Ayah.

Night had swallowed the daylight, plunging them into the kind of darkness that not even the trees looked menacing to scare anyone. Only Xander knew where they were going. Brielle stumbled after him, relying on his broad back for the direction. Ayo and Ayah didn't have as much trouble as...