Chapter Sixteen
A hand covered Etta’s mouth and her eyes snapped open to find Matteo hovering over her. Instinct had her reaching for her knife. Matteo held a finger to his lips and released her, motioning her to follow him to the mouth of the cave. She rolled to her feet and silently padded past the still-sleeping forms of Edmund, Tyson, and Maiya.
“Where are we going?”
Matteo jerked his head around. “Quiet.”
Narrowing her eyes, she trailed him out into the early morning light. A chill hung in the air as they clambered over a boulder. Etta’s feet slammed into the dirt as she dropped from the rounded rock and prepared to climb the next. Matteo stopped at the top and crouched low as his eyes focused on the valley down below.
Was he going to kill her? She didn’t know her cousin. He coul
