CHAPTER 19
ISABELLA POV
My legs slipped over the jagged edge of the rock as I felt the sickening lurch in my stomach.
I looked at my father,he wasn't looking at me, no one was. All eyes were fixed on that man who has no doubt came to finish me off.
My eyes were locked onto the monster on the other side. The Thing from the woods. The predator who had pinned me to a tree and drained me until my heart almost stopped.
He was a silhouette of absolute shadow against the bone-white trees, but his eyes... they were two suns of burning, predatory red.
I fell as the memory of his teeth in my neck flashed through my mind—the cold, the pain, the way he had looked at me like I was nothing but a snack.
We weren't friends. He wasn't a savior. He was just a different kind of nightmare. Don't jump! The command exploded inside my skull, a roar of such absolute terror but I had already fallen.
Didn't it tell me to jump before? My eyes looked back at the monster who blurred before my vision.
