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A Chance
More of a chance of what? I wondered. Resisting him?
I couldn’t imagine being so weak that I’d return to him for his torturing pleasure. But I could admit in some tiny place in the back of my mind that Mathis’ control over me was growing. That my yearning to see him again was evolving. And that something in how I viewed him, was changing.
In ways that are entirely unsettling.
Just as we went to leave the edge of the woods, Veline appeared in the path. Nearly startling me out of my skin.
“Veline?” I asked. Studying the hazy outline of her lovely blonde hair and vivacious blue eyes. Seeing there was a near-panicked urgency written over her.
She reached as if to urgently catch me by the shoulder, but instead her hand floated through me. “What happened with Mathis?”
Back at WitchFall?
It dawned on me that she must’ve just seen the interaction with Timothy the Tanner or caught some part of it.
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