Chapter forty-one: Mira
Through my hands I could feel Matthew’s heart beating like a scared rabbit’s. When I got back to the village, I had seen him coming towards me, and for a moment my heart had dropped in my stomach, because I was sure that he had noticed that I was gone and he had been looking all over for me. But before I could even call out to him to make up some excuse, he had turned and walked into the woods. First, I had thought that he didn’t want to have this argument right in the middle of the street and was going somewhere quieter, but I soon realized that he didn’t even notice I was there. He had stopped in front of a tree and leaned his head against it. I had been so confused by the whole situation, that it took me a minute to react when he started hammering his fists against the tree. When I ha
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