Tessa Pov
I kept wondering the whole way there how I could have done this differently. If I had stopped to talk to Nate, or anyone, really…no one would have let me go. I had a feeling if Jason had heard a bunch of people following Nicole’s directions in the woods, then he’d have taken her and left. If I had left a letter, all I could have given was the directions to where Nicole was, and they wouldn’t have been able to find me from then on. This little girl, she was something else. I watched her glow a soft violet glow as the ground around us fluttered in the wind, masking every single step we took. Jason had put some strange sort of metal around my wrists that made me feel drained, to the point that I could barely walk. He made sure he walked behind me, his hand moving me one way or the
