Before stepping into the humid, leafy unknown, Edward glanced back one final time.
Leander still had his hand on Olivia’s arm. Grayson, still in animal form, stood beside her, a low growl rumbling through his chest. The lone remaining guide still waited patiently at the edge of the forest for the trio to move.
And the twins were still looking at him.
Smiling.
Three days. She can’t lie. This is what I’d do every day if I could.
The chaos inside Hawk’s skull was composed of howling winds, volcanic eruptions, and those fifteen words, repeating themselves with such vehement, shrieking force he wondered if he’d slipped over the fine line between sanity and insanity, and had finally lost his mind.
It definitely felt like it.
Clumsy and distracted, he trudged blindly down the hill from t
