Chapter Forty

Walking into the cave the temperature changed and dropped several degrees. The further we walked in the cooler it got. My warm skin goosebumped with the sudden change in temperature.

The walls were wet and I could hear water dripping and echoing from a distance. It seemed like we walked forever in the dark, but Dimitri seemed to know where he was going. Neither one of us spoke so there was only the echoing of our footsteps, the dripping water in the distance and our breathing that broke each moment of silence. I didn't know what he was thinking, but I could feel some of the things he was feeling. I knew he was upset because he wasn't there to help his people. I knew that he was beyond angry with my father and Viktor. He was feeling worried about me.

All these things I was feeling and all these things I wish I could change not only for me, but for him expecially.

The tunnel we were walking started to narrow the further we walked until the ceiling was much lower than the rest. Dimitri b