Seraphina's POV
I stand up. "Are you telling me to go to Africa with you? Because if you are, the answer is no. I am not going there. I have sworn never to go there."
"But you must." Damon does not take his eyes off of me. He is mesmerizing, and I realize that this is the gaze of the Wolf. "Do you not want to find out what really happened to your parents, or who they really are?"
"No!" My chest heaves as I raise my voice. "Can not you see I am fine with the way I am? Do not you know how much I have been trying to put the deaths of my parents behind me?"
"You cannot run away, Seraphina."
I narrow my eyes at him. "Watch me."
I look at the bamboo fence, and then all around me. Without warning, I jump over it, landing on my hands and one knee on the other side. Shaking the dust off my pa
