Madeline POV
We didn’t say a word to each other the whole ride back to the house. My body had only just stopped trembling with fear at the sinister look he’d given me. I don’t know what had changed, but the darkness that I always knew lurked within was now in full force. Consuming him. I didn’t dare look at him or say a word. We had just spent the entire day together and as much as I hated to admit it, I was starting to warm to him. To trust his intentions. How foolish I was.
He stopped the car at the end of the dirt road and the entrance of the mystical forest. I longed for a run as Nina, my wolf, but I knew asking him now was a bad idea. He walked ahead of me, glancing back every now and again to check if I was still there and hadn’t tried to run. I contemplated it, believe me. But wit
