358 Days Of Temptation & Sins With My Alpha Stepsons
The ground beneath us shook again, a loud crack splitting through the air as something gave way.
“Don’t look back!” the woman yelled.
But I did.
And I saw it—
A section of wood, already weakened by the fire, breaking apart above us.
It fell.
The world seemed to slow for a moment, the sound stretching into something distant and distorted. The woman’s grip tightened, her body shifting as if to shield us, but it wasn’t fast enough.
The wood hit the ground hard.
Not on us, but close enough to send a shock through the earth, close enough to make me stumble and fall from her grasp.