Josh
Alec’s head snapped toward the far shore. In the thin moonlight I could see him squinting, trying to make out shapes in the dark.
“There’s someone else over there!” His voice went tight.
I saw it a second later. A figure. Moving. Lifting something.
Lifting her.
“It’s taking her!” The words tore out of me before I finished thinking them.
We were on our horses in a heartbeat. All three of us rode like demons around the lake, crashing through brush and low branches, the dark woods whipping at our faces. It felt like it took forever. When we reached the far shore, there was no one. The grass was pressed flat where she’d been lying. A trail of wet footprints led into the woods.
Celeste was gone.
“It’s too dark. How are we going to find her?” I looked around in the trees, my chest h
