Lara
For the past week, the cavern behind the waterfall had become ours.
Our secret place.
Our escape.
Every morning, after breakfast, I would slip out of the house and make my way through the woods to meet Elijah.
Nobody knew.
Not my father.
Not Heidi.
Not a single member of the pack.
And I liked it that way.
For the first time in my life, I had something that belonged solely to me.
Elijah and I weren’t rushing anything. We were simply learning about each other.
We talked.
We laughed.
We argued over ridiculous things.
We ran through the forest until neither of us could be bothered running anymore.
Sometimes we sat behind the waterfall for hours without saying much at all.
There was something comforting about that.
With everyone else, I was always aware of who I was.
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