Chapter 18 : Don't Eat the Food

*Eliza*

I ran. I didn’t know what else to do. The forest passed in a blur as I worked my way through the dense underbrush, trying to put as much distance as I could from the battle taking place in the clearing that had once been our camp.

I couldn’t hear anything taking place at our camp from my hiding spot beneath the trees, but then a scream had ripped through the forest… then another, then another. After the third scream, I jumped to my feet and ran like my life depended on it.

If Jared was still alive, which seemed unlikely, he’d find me.

Right?

Jared’s wolf had been a shock, almost as shocking as the situation I found myself in now… Black as night with crimson eyes, large and agile.

But that shadow he cast as he sprinted away from me was what had stunned me. It was a part of him, something tethered to his soul that he couldn’t shake. It was… power, a dark power… something he couldn’t control.