FAYE
I didn’t stop until the trees swallowed me.
I wasn’t even sure how I got there—one moment I was leaving the room, the next I was already deep enough into the woods that the house felt like something distant.
My steps slowed on their own.
Then stopped.
Just like that.
I stood there, breathing unevenly, my chest rising a little too fast, the air cool against my skin but doing nothing to settle the heat that had been tearing through me minutes ago.
It was gone now.
That was the first thing I noticed.
The feeling was gone, like it had never been there at all.
I swallowed, my fingers twitching slightly at my side.
And then—
I closed my eyes briefly, my jaw tightening as my memory replayed, whether I wanted it to or not.
I slapped Alexander.
"Oh no."
The image came fresh… the
