Somehow, I managed to make it outside and plunge into the forest. Branches tore at my dress and scratched my arms, but I didn’t stop.
I didn’t get far, though, before I tripped over a fallen log and went down hard, tasting blood where I bit my tongue.
“There you are.”
He was on me before I could get back up, his weight pinning me to the forest floor. I could smell his breath, sour and rotten, as he leaned over me.
“That was stupid,” he panted. “Now I’m angry.”
Panic consumed me completely. This was it. This was how I was going to die. Not from my condition, but here in the dirt with this monster.
I opened my mouth and screamed with everything I had left.
“Alexander!”
…
Alexander
“Take her to the hospital,” I told Liam as I helped Lilith into his car. B
