Chapter 347

“Your life trumps everything. Your safety comes first. I can’t believe my mom even allowed you to do this. What the hell was she thinking?” He rages out loud, throwing a Colton tantrum into the air around us. Stamping across the foliage like a bad-mood bear, I close my mouth and cling on, hoping the walk home will help him vent a little. “That my daughter was more capable than you give her credit for!” Sierra’s voice cuts in, almost making Colton drop me as he realizes she’s still wandering around here without an escort but walking beside him inside this retched forest. She has dodged Meadow and Carmen and found her way back to us and probably has Carmen going mad with looking. “Don’t even, Mom. You don’t know what you missed back there when you lost her. Jesus Christ, I go mentally off the charts for a week, and you two start running around the forest, taking on vampires! What the hell, mom? The two most important people in my life, and you’re out here acting like all this is a walk