Chapter 45: Special Invite

— Leia Steele —

My heart pumped like crazy, the beating getting harder and faster as I half walked half sprinted towards the back of the cabin.

Maxie was closely following behind me, even though for a second I thought he would rather stay with… him.

I felt a shudder travel all throughout my body almost instantly.

Goddess, no wonder he and Maxie immediately bonded like how we did too before. It’s because he was just like me. How in the world did I miss that?

I guess I was so caught up in meeting another person that I hadn’t stopped to think about the fact that it was possible he wouldn’t just be a person.

“Vera!”

Edith almost gave me a heart attack when she popped up from the corner, holding a knife up in the air.

She must have noticed my widened eyes on the knife because she quickly put it behind her back.

“Oh, I’m sorry, I was cutting a slice of the pie. Where have you been? We were starting to get worried. Chris was on the verge of calling a sheriff over here, but I told him that