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Odette’s Pov
Keep running, I said to my side, holding onto my side waist as pain was engraved in it.
I can’t afford to be caught. They must not catch me—not now, not after the stress.
My legs took me faster through the forest while my heart panted hard. I finally came to a halt when the voice of my pursuers became distant.
All my body aches as I thud on the floor in exhaustion. When I thought my run was over, a crispy twig sounded from the distance, causing my leg to freeze and my breath to hitch.
My brain alerted me to run, but fear gripped my feet tighter on the ground as the unknown presence grew closer.
An image stepped out of the darkness. He looked so tall, broad-shouldered, and dressed in black.
My eyes strained to see him in the night, and a deep hood of a cloak covere
