Chapter 12: Forest Journey

Dane POV

Lilia’s home city of Wildefell bordered on the thickest, most luxuriant, and potentially dangerous forest Dane had ever encountered outside Evenhide lands. After a six day ride, they were moving closer to shifter territory.

Tall trees with sunlight filtering through the canopy stretched to the southeast for as far as the eye could see. Dane’s senses absorbed the droning of the insects, the scent of tree sap, the caress of the wind in his hair, and the taste of water from a trickling stream that Lilia insisted on sticking a crystal into, just to be sure it was purified.

Because he'd retched from the wolfsbane attack after he woke up in Lilia’s home, Dane didn’t argue. He’d had enough of being sick…besides, he had better things planned for Lilia and her energy, her intelligence, and her magnificent healing hands than to have her play nursemaid.