Chapter 16: Distress and DesireDashing through the woods, I didn't consider where I was going or what to do next. My breathing was ragged, my lungs laboring painfully as I struggled through the darkening woods, oblivious to everything but the need to escape what I'd witnessed. Hot tears ran down my cheeks and I stumbled against a gnarled tree root, crashing heavily onto the mossy ground. Wrenching angrily to my feet, I was intent on putting more space between myself and Lucas when I felt his cool hand grab my arm and he spun me roughly around to face him.
“Charlotte, stop!” He gripped both my arms with his hands and I moaned, pummeling my fists against his chest.
“Let me go, let me go!” I shrieked, fragile emotions rapidly escalating into cold-blooded fury. The vision of him kissing Jenn
