Evie’s POV
It takes everything in me to keep running.
What am I running for? What I am I running toward? Toward the Umbra Badlands, where Ty will be killed on sight and I’ll be taken prisoner, only to be returned to the people I ran from?
Tristan might be dead, but he has two brothers. If they catch me, they’ll surely try to do the same thing they did before. The forced marriage is one thing, but the forced s*x?
Even now, the memory of Carlisle holding me down while Tristan hiked up my skirts is too much to bear.
How could I ever have wanted to be with a monster like Tristan? How could I ever have been so blind?
I deserve this fate. Which is why I barely have the strength to run.
Ty must sense it, because about ten minutes after we take off into the woods, he comes to a stop.
“Have
