KYLIE'S POV
I placed a hand over my racing heart once Elijah was gone. Bravado, that's all it was, when I asked him to leave a moment ago. Nothing but sheer bravado, had me locking the door against Elijah. Because when he was gone, I slid against the door and tried to still the trembling.
I know what I had seen out there in the woods, even though Elijah tried to convince me to forget all about it.
Beasts. They were beasts, who were first men. And what struck me as worse, was that Elijah had been there right after. Did that make him one of the beasts too?
I placed my hands on my temples and began to rock forward and backward. What the hell was happening around me? And how did Elijah connect to all of it? Because he knew something. The very fact that he was hell-bent on me staying away p
