Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter Fifty-Five: It starts with a howl

Travis and I walked on the path leading away from the house for quite a while. It was a strange feeling to be doing something so normal with him. We walked side by side and every so often his hand would brush against mine like he was trying to remind himself that I was there.

I tried not to bother him as his eyes moved over the pathway and the trees that lined the beaten path. I watched him look around, how he seemed to take everything in all at once. Every tree, every leaf, it was like he was memorizing it all. Like he was seeing something that I wasn’t seeing with my human eyes. He stopped walking and stiffened beside me. Travis grabbed my hand, squeezing my fingers softly. I looked down the path that led us deeper into the woods.

“What is it?” I asked. His lips twitched, but he didn’t look at me.

“Daddy is coming.” He smirked down at me and I pulled my hand from his.

“Damn it.” I grumbled, turning away from him. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to see Ryan. I just knew that he was going to try to take me back to the house or maybe he was coming to talk me out of being in the hunt despite what he had said earlier. I didn’t want to hear it and I wasn’t going back to Scott’s house right now.

It didn’t feel like home right now. It felt like lies, like everything else in my life.

“Sweets?” Travis called out as I stomped down the trail, not paying attention to where I was going. “Where are you going?”

“I’m not going back to the house.” I called over my shoulder, walking quicker away from him.

“I doubt that he’s coming to do that. I mean, he likes seeing you all angry hot as much as I do, but he’s a softie outside of the bedroom.”

called out and I heard a growl from somewhere

the sound had come from. I couldn’t seem to find it and I frowned; this trail didn’t look familiar. I hadn’t realized Ryan was that close, but given how I could barely hear Travis’ steps when we walked on the

but I didn’t see him out there. A breeze blew and Travis let out a growl of his own and it was like

“Matilda, don’t move.”

it made me stop. I looked over my shoulder at him, trying not to worry. It was like the feeling was bubbling up in the pit of my stomach, threatening to tighten

said as Ryan drew closer to him. “A wolf. Your dad said you knew

hammered in my chest, and I realized we were deeper in the woods than I had noticed. While walking with Travis, I hadn’t been paying attention to where I was going. Now I had no idea where we were and I hoped that I hadn’t put my

get a better look at the path. The ones around the house were lined with rocks that Scott’s father had placed along the trail when he was a boy. I had walked all those paths so many times, but this time I had no idea where we were. There was a

a howl sounded out somewhere behind me, followed by a chorus of howls. The sound

spun around, looking at Ryan and Travis. Travis had already started coming closer to me, his eyes had grown dark and his body was so tense. I had never seen him look like this and something about the way that he looked at me made me

This was a beast.

of his own. This one didn’t sound the same as the others, and I knew

moving to my arm to tug me closer. “Fuck, they’ve been tracking us. I

those howls mean?” I asked,

the hunt has started” Travis said, as Ryan let out another

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