Aspen
I ran.
Because what else was I meant to do. Finally I had been given the freedom I had craved for so long. Didn’t matter how I had gotten it or if I had ripped apart a friendship that had been going strong for centuries. All that mattered was that I was free.
Finally.
Or at least it was all that should matter. I couldn’ t help but feel a pang of guilt deep inside my chest.
My feet pounded on the floor, my chest burned. Every muscle in my body was tense. At any second I half expected for someone to step out of a doorway and stop me or even worse the featherlight sound of Thane and Emrys footsteps behind me. But neither one of those things happened.
The whole house seemed to be bathed in a heavy silence. So thick and heavy that it seemed to weigh down on my shoulders. I was fr
