All Chapters of The Forsaken: Chapter 51 - Chapter 54

Atlas steps forward before I can say a word. His voice is low, hard-edged. "You what now?" The tension between them crackles sharp enough to split bone. I clear my throat before either of them throws a punch or shifts out of spite."I met a witch, years ago, before I left. She lives close to the border, only on our side." A witch living in the werewolf territory, and she managed to survive between them. How? The second they would sniff her out, it would be her end. And why did Cole help her? But more importantly..."And you think she can help me?" I ask, but Atlas lifts his hand, stopping Cole from answering."If you knew of a witch on our territory, why didn't you report it?" Atlas questions him. Honestly, I want to know the answer too.Cole doesn’t flinch under Atlas’s stare, but there’s a shadow that moves behind his eyes. A flicker of guilt, or memory, or both.“I should have,” he admits, voice low, but steady. “But she wasn’t a threat. She never crossed into the inner zones. She

"You lied," Saf says. "You said you stopped fantasizing about Cole a long time ago, but you still waited for him to come back." Something she never understood. "You held onto an illusion." "Will you stop?" I ask her as I walk down the hall. The smell of warm bread is already hitting my nose, and I latch onto it like it might anchor me back in the present.She’s quiet for a beat, just long enough for me to hope she’s gone. But Saf never leaves when things get uncomfortable. "I’m not trying to hurt you," she says more gently this time. "But I'm stuck with feeling whatever emotions come through you, and that hope you have about Cole being this realization of love is suffocating."Her words slice through the warm haze of the hallway, sharper than they have any right to be.“I’m stuck with it,” she continues. “With the ache in your chest when you think of him. With the way your pulse shifts when someone just mentions his name. You think you’ve buried it deep enough, but it’s still there.