Chapter twenty one

The walk to the river is a ticking bomb for me. I now get to see him clearly from head to toe. This man is delicious.

Then my grown-ass woman's mind takes over and my first action is to rebel against everything he says. When he walks to the left, I walk to the right, and he must use several minutes to plead with me to listen.

I walk down the cliff to test his willingness to let me go unharmed. I want to see how much he cares. When he asks me why I must climb down the cliff, my short answer is it’s the shortest path to Zia and James.

When I look at the bottom of the cliff. It’s scary. And I am dizzy. My body is running out of energy. One drop and I am dead.

Keirah you are being childish. My grown-ass mind speaks to me.

“Are you going to keep around the end of the cliff? That is the end, Keirah. If you are trying to go down one wrong step, you will die.

“You look like you are already low in energy. Let's just walk that way and join Zia and James at the river on the other side,” Luc