CHAPTER ELEVEN
My jaw hit the floor before my eyebrows crashed down. “Why didn’t you warn me about this before!?”
“Because you have few connections in this world, and so I assumed you would be safe with me watching over you,” he pointed out, but he continued to stare into the fire as his face fell. He ran a hand through his hair and shook his head. “I was wrong, and for that I apologize.”
My stiff shoulders sank, but a snort escaped my lips. “You’re right about the family part, and with you beside me I wouldn’t have thought anyone else I knew would be skipping through a haunted forest.”
“I believe this is something worse than the forest enticing you.” He turned his head to the side and his eyes fell on my throat. “And no dream could make those marks.”
I reached up and gingerly t
