Chapter Fifty-Three

Sullen When Sullen woke she sat straight up. The smell of earth and water slid against her skin. Blinking, she looked up at the waterfall that both boys had taken her to. Why on earth had he brought her here? The grass was high around where he sat her down, and a headache was forming at the base of her skull. She felt like he’d dragged her over every stump in the woods. “Beautiful place, isn’t it?” Sullen didn’t even bother looking over her shoulder. She searched the field for someone, anyone, but no one had made it there yet. She knew Roan could smell her. Feel her. But something was keeping him from her. Was it Jacob? Had Roan not received the message she sent through the mind link? Was Jacob sending him on a wild goose chase? She closed her eyes and tried to reach out to him but her mind was oddly blank again. “You think I would let you mind link your little boyfriend, Sullen? Come on, you have to know me better than that.” Duke walked closer, snagging a wildflower from