CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

(Forest Truths)

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Samantha pov.

The air was cold against my skin and I pulled my coat closer around myself, trying to shield myself from the cold.

It was icy, the wind that cut through the trees, and made its way down to the very core of my being. I wondered, for a fleeting moment, I should have simply stayed inside.

Maybe, if I had stayed put, I wouldn't be freezing right now. I wasn't thinking straight when I ran out of

the room, but my head was a mess.

Then again, it was still all twisted up now, the

anxiety within me making itself known. I...