At first, I could hear their paws pounding against the forest floor. I heard the leaves being crushed beneath our weight. I could feel the branches as they scratched at my face. But soon enough, the beating of my heart began to fill my ears. My body went numb from fear. All I could do was push forward. Further the distance between the animals and my friends.
“Evie? Evie, where the hell are you?”
Jonah"s voice filtered through my tiny earpiece. I took a second to look behind me to see the wolves less than three feet away from me. I didn’t respond. There wasn’t time. I ran straight for a fallen tree and prayed it was low enough for me to vault over.
It was. I landed in a crouch on the other side before I pushed off once more. I heard one of the animals’ whelp behind me. Then another. But
