All Chapters of The Whispers in the Woods: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

I couldn’t fall apart. I couldn’t go back to being the weak creature I had always been before. Pulling myself up from the dirt and dusting myself off carefully, I took a look around to see if anyone had seen me. It looked like everyone was still going about their lives as though nothing had happened. I took a deep breath and peaked around the corner. They were gone. I wondered if Brodie had heard my thoughts. He was probably too busy to bother thinking about me, let alone trying to sense me.I stepped out from behind the cabin and headed straight to the meeting room we had been in before. I would tell Jackson that I couldn’t find Brodie and, given the seriousness of the matter, that we should start without him. I was done taking a backseat to him, with putting him and his place in the pack first.It didn’t take long for everyone to start arriving and I purposely sat in Brodie’s chair as they all took theirs. “Sorry to pull you all back again, but we need to come up wit

When I woke the next morning, Brodie was still sleeping. I had expected him to wake the second I moved and insist on coming with me into the forest. I moved so slowly and quietly around the cabin. Taking all my things upstairs before getting ready. I couldn’t risk waking him. If I did, everything would have been for nothing. I wrote a note to him. Explaining what I had seen and revealing my secret to him. I pocketed the note and slipped out of the door. Instead of heading straight out of the camp, I took a detour to the meeting cabin. As soon as he realised I was gone, he would call everyone together. Setting up search parties to track me down. It was the ideal place to leave the note so that he wouldn’t see it until everything was all over.As I reached the door, I had second thoughts. I didn’t want to be alone in the world again. That wasn’t a good enough reason to stay by Brodie’s side while he and Cassie made a fool of me. As soon as I thought of the pair of them, I could

I landed right behind him and felt satisfied when I saw him jump. I felt like laughing. The whole thing was ridiculous. If this buffoon was the best Marcus could come up with, then he wasn’t much of a threat. He turned, and I smiled at him like the innocent girl I used to be. It wasn’t fair for me to toy with him, but I couldn’t help it. He came towards me slowly, like he was trying not to scare off his prey. Little did he know that he had the prey versus predator situation the wrong way around.I waited for him to get within a whisper of me, even letting him grab my arm. The look on his face told me that he thought he had finally managed to do something right. He was clearly a lifelong failure in the eyes of my uncle. I dropped the dagger out of my sleeve and into my hand and seamlessly slid it directly into his gut. The shock on his face was a picture. He looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his skull as the realisation of the situation hit him. He opened his mouth

I opened my eyes, and for a second and everything was so fussy. Looking around, I found Jackson sitting beside the bed on a chair, with his head laid on my leg and snoring away. Gearld was there too, pacing back and forth at the foot of the bed. “Where’s Brodie?” I asked.“He’s fine. I’m sure he will show up at some point. How are you feeling?” Gerald responded, but his voice was low. It made me wonder how long Jackson had been beside my bed worrying.“Tired, but fine.” I shifted stiffly in the bed.“What on earth were you thinking?” He was annoyed, and I had known he would be from the second the plan had formed in my mind.“I thought I could handle it. I didn’t want to risk the camp. Marcus is coming back to attack the camp at sundown.” I felt like a child being chastised.“We know. Brodie heard everything. They’re all out there waiting to ambush him.” I went to lift myself up, but my head spun. “No, you don’t. You need rest.”“I need to ge

I started dragging him towards the camp, but I was already starting to feel the vampire effect wear off. As soon as I got far enough into the woods, I dumped him in the undergrowth. It didn’t take me long to hunt and quench the thirst that was overtaking me. With each kill, I felt less guilty about the need for it. I wiped my mouth as I headed back to where I had left him. He was still there but had managed to break through his rope ties at his ankles. “You’re not going anywhere, so could you at least stop making things harder for me?”“And why would I do that?”“We’re family. Not to mention that it is completely pointless and a waste of your energy and mine.” I stooped and tied him up again quickly. “I’m still hoping you are going to see the error of your ways.” Grabbing the scruff of his neck, I started dragging him again.“You do realise that when I don’t return to the Elders, they will send people looking for me?” It was something I had considered, but if I