CHAPTER 103 A DANGEROUS TRIAD

Minerva I slowly began to regain my strength as Dominic and I trudged out of the forest, with him holding my hand firmly and the diary safely secured in the satchel we had found it in, dangling from his other hand. "I'm getting déjà vu right now," I said, unable to keep it in. "Me too," he replied. "We always seem to be finding our way out of a forest," I added, and he chuckled softly while nodding in agreement. "It does seem like a staple occurrence in our relationship." "Relationship?!" I echoed, but not as excitingly as my inner voice had. He glanced back at me with his gorgeous, lazy eyes, and my mouth dried up. "I'd like to think we have some sort of relationship now," he started as he turned back ahead. "We already kissed, held hands, and we kept flirting," he trailed off with a shrug. I rolled my eyes, but my cheeks were heating up. I didn't want him to know how glad his words had made me, though, not when he was deliberately not being direct. I wasn't about to jump to con