CHAPTER 32

KATHERINE. I wiped away my tears with the sleeves of my T-shirt as my phone buzzed and I pulled it out of my pocket. It was a message from Helena asking where I went because I didn’t reply to her and when my gaze landed on the fees I’d paid to be here, anger surged within me again and I screamed. It was an ear-splitting scream and I wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t alone so imagine my surprise when I found out that I actually wasn’t it. A head suddenly poked out from behind the tree I was facing and my scream morphed from one of anger to terror before it died in my throat when it clicked that the head was attached to a body and it belonged to Theo who was currently frowning at me. “What the fuck are you doing here?!” “What the fuck are ‘you’ doing here?! I was trying to sleep!” he shot back. This was the most disgruntled I’d seen him and the first time I’d heard him raise his voice. “In the middle of the forest?!” “Well yeah. I didn’t expect anyone crazy to come here.” “I– …Did