Sam POV
“Go, and follow that child!” Nathan firmly pushed me to do so.
“We don’t have time!” I replied. For sure, River and Ryder would smell my scent. Dad could tell them I wasn’t prepared to see them, even after all that time. Of all days, why do they have to show up now? They eat breakfast in the palace, not in some random diner!
I was about to run to my truck, but my conscience made me dash for the child instead. She was nowhere in sight and probably had gone into the woods already. The weird thing was her scent was faint. It had not happened to me before. I could only depend on my other senses to track her. Stopping for a moment, I listened to any sound that could lead me to her.
“She has gone far already!” Nathan exclaimed in shock.
“I know!” I was surprised, too. For a little
