Selena’s POV
Darkness clung to the towering trees, their gnarled branches twisting like skeletal fingers against the night sky. The only sound was the crunch of dead leaves beneath my shoes and the distant rustling of something unseen.
My hair stood on end!
Something wrapped around my foot and I swallowed a scream, as I crashed to the ground. Every cell in my body seized up and my fight or flight instinct made my skin prickle. My mind was a jumbled mess as I kicked and clawed my way back to my feet, frantically seeking out the hands that had gripped me…
A tree…
I’d gotten my foot tangled up in the root of a tree. Exhaling in relief, my hand gripped my chest, physically hurting from the whole ordeal. I’d known that running off into the forest in the middle of the night wasn’t the great
