Narrow Escape
Despite his weird behavior, she was glad he hadn't shot her dead yet.
Julian scoffed at her remark, and Anastasia noticed his grip loosen on his arrow. "You could try, but I won't guarantee you would succeed."
Anastasia still didn't understand why he was challenging her to kill him. Now she only wondered if he had some loose screws in his head.
There was no time to tell how long she'd been wandering around the forest, searching for the forbidden lines while trying to keep herself alive, but she could tell she'd been there longer than she'd predicted, and Avery must have been waiting for her already at their destination.
But now she'd gone and bumped into Julian—the very man who had calmly informed her he intended to 'purchase' her at the end of this twisted game, as though she were some item to be picked up at a supermarket.
He already marked her as a thing and that was what she despised the most.