CHAPTER 41

  Sebastian's Point Of View

  She could be anywhere, in any sort of danger and I wouldn't be there to protect her. I wouldn't be there because I'm the most stubborn man alive and I let her go. I didn't trust her to understand what was happening to me.?

  Bewildered, I reach back to our camp site, probably because I must've walked in a circle, tracking her scent back to where it begun.

  With bare sherds of control left in me, I punch a tree, my split knuckles heal in an instant. The sterm shakes, leaves fall down.

  "Damn it," I hold a hand to my forehead.?

  Where are you, Hazel?

  Would she even come back to me?

  After all I've put her through? Or was she happier with Hackerman? At the lodge? Where people didn't tell her to shut up or be quick or anything that would hurt her. Where I wasn't her only option.

  I try to swallow the lump in my parched throat, once I find herI will fix this. I'll tell her everything she needs to know.