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The forest wassilent around me as I slipped between the trees. Off in the distance, I could hear the pounding music of the raging party I’d planned and put together. Dots and Mare would keep it going all night, giving me the time I needed to disappear without a male fae tailing me.
One male fae in particular.
The sabertooth one who had turned me down time, after time, after time.
It was pretty ironic, really. I’d wished myself away from Earth to get away from an abusive boyfriend… and yet had managed to fall for a fae guy who was as close to abusive as the fae could get.
Which, honestly, wasn’t very close.
Teris hadn’t been cruel to me. He definitely hadn’t hit me.
But the constant rejection and disinterest was just too damn much.
I was done.
So… I was leaving.
Teris would’ve been following me, too, if Ana and Rosalie hadn’t agreed to start a fight just outside the party. All it took to distract my temporary-mate was one little punch. He was always looking for a fight.
So really, the escape was a team effort. But if you told any ex-human chick that you wanted to get away from a man, they’d just ask how they could help.
I guess I was that way, too… though I’d much rather play match-maker than match-breaker.
Since I moved much faster in my basilisk form, that was the one I currently occupied. The shorts that the other girls always wore didn’t work well when I shifted, since I didn’t have any legs in my beast form. So before I left, I’d altered them into a miniskirt. It was, admittedly, more scandalous than the shorts. But I was a sucker for a good scandal.
The other basilisks had showed me the best way to get around the forest in our beast forms; we were thick enough and strong enough to keep up with the others for the most part on the forest floor, but in the trees, we thrived.
Long torsos helped with that, I supposed.
So I was sliding through the trees, my movements both fast and silent.
If I was going to get away from Teris, speed and silence were necessary. Despite his lack of desire for me, the bond connecting us still irked him. Which meant he still felt the need to protect me. And possess me.
Honestly, I should’ve kissed another guy to break the bond before I left, but…
I just couldn’t.
Maybe that was out of some twisted sense of loyalty, but it was loyalty all the same.
I spent twenty minutes in the trees, until I reached my first checkpoint:
A river.
Teris would track me easily by scent, unless I did something to cover it. And since I wasn’t willing to snuggle up with some random dude, the river was my best shot at hiding myself.
When I reached it, I dove in and was careful to lower the length of my body down deep. I’d heard the men talking about tracking basilisks in water before; they said there were signs of us in the sand and stones for a few hours afterward. Our weight would leave a large dip.
So I spent fifteen minutes headed in the wrong direction, deep in the sand at first and then rising up higher and higher so the tracks would grow lighter.
After that, I turned around and swam hard against the current. I was careful; I couldn’t afford not to be.
Not if I wanted to get away from him.
And I didn’t just want to—Ineededto.
Ineededthat space.
