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

it and I frowned; this

was strange, though, it sounded like it was almost in front of me but I didn’t see him out there. A breeze blew and Travis let out a growl of his own and

“Matilda, don’t move.”

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

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

around, worrying my lower lip as goosebumps rose along my arms. My heart 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 could 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 tree in the distance with some markings on it and I moved

a howl sounded out somewhere behind me, followed by a chorus of howls. The sound was eerie and made chills move through my body that had little to do with the

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

This was a beast.

back, letting a howl out of his own. This one didn’t sound the same as the

front of me, his hand moving to my arm to tug me closer.

those howls mean?” I asked, letting him

that the hunt has started” Travis said, as Ryan let out another howl. “Ryan’s

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