CHAPTER 57
NAOMIRyan groaned softly and continued up the mountain, leaving me standing near the broken tree and waiting for an answer. I crossed my arms over my chest and gazed down at my feet to shield myself from the biting winter breeze.
“You’re just going to ignore me?” I asked.
“No, Naomi,” he said. “I’m not ignoring you.”
I raised my brows and caught up to him. “Well then, answer me.”
“How would you like me to answer?” he asked. “Honestly? With my opinion?”
I kicked some snow with the tip of my snow boot, listening to the howls through the forest. The sun was beginning to set over the mountain, and if we didn’t get up there soon, we wouldn’t know what was going on.
“Is your opinion not honest?”
“It is what I beli—”
I fell to the ground, clutching my neck, a piercing pain goi
