Chapter 113

KEENA

Ward and I cuddle together under the tree canopy. The trees are providing little shelter from the frigid winter wind. I don't know how long we were under the trees waiting but it feels like the witches are never going to come.

"How much longer do you think we should wait?" Ward asks as he shivers at my side.

Just as I am about to answer him the wind picks up and swirls around us. Ward lets go of my arm to shield his face from the icy wind but as soon as he does he disappears from my side.

"Ward," I scream over the wind but I can't hear a response over the wind.

Raising my hands in the air I swipe them down quickly and the wind disperses around me. The snow that was swirling around me falls to the ground in a perfect circle. The footsteps that Ward and I had left in the snow have now been covered and I don't know my way out of the forest.

"Shit," I mumble to myself. "This was a bad idea."

"Probably," a voice says as a cloaked figure walks out of the woods.