Chapter 5 I’M ONLY A MAN

— Kaden — Fuuuuuuuuuck! The battle was already underway. I was supposed to lead this. I started this. And there was a girl ready to bolt, right there in the middle of the woods, and I couldn’t do shit. Dawn. That was one hell of a deadline. I took my boots off after I got back in the woods, far away from her so that she wouldn’t see—I didn’t want to freak her out anymore that she already was—I partially shifted and used this to move faster, jumping over any precarious...