24 (part 2)

Sonya quickly made her way through the forest with Camren on her heels. Heart racing as she ducked barely visible tree breaches, she refused to be played for a fool. Not again… never again. She navigated her way along the path she and Beast had taken. How she managed to remember the direction of the castle in the dead of night, she didn’t know. Especially when she had been carried on his back and had been too distracted by the feel of his soft fur against her face. She simply followed the direction of her pounding heart and hoped her suspicions were wrong.

Try as she might push the feeling aside, she couldn’t help but feel as if she was being betrayed, that something that belonged to her was being stolen right from under her nose. Before she knew it, she was breaking through the dense forest trees and entering the back gardens of the palace. The closer she came to the dark structure, the more a dead weight settled on her chest, slowing her pace but not stopping her.